tenhou
Now that I have your attention, there’s no sex. Anywhere near this post. Anyway, xkime again here. I figured I’d leave a breakdown of the “new” stats page of tenhou in here with their translation. Even better, right? … Anyway… The top row, is your nickname: きめず The next
Mahjong News
We haven’t had a news post in a while have we? Some of this news will certainly be old news because I’m just adding stuff until it is an acceptable amount (200 words!) Sakura Taikai Registrations [http://www.sakura-taikai.nl/uk/welcome.html]opened this week for what
Guides
Becoming 6th dan in tenhou boosted my confident to teach basic strategy quite a bit. Not as much as it would if I could enter houou tables, but still quite a bit. Today will not be one of "xkime's translations" but rather "an article actually
Tournaments
Hello there, Riichi mahjong fans from over the world! It has been over a week since another EMA tournament was held. Me, my Slovak mahjong mates and two other #osamuko residents – s25k and ron5 – took part in it. The latter two guys had it easy, since they are from Germany,
Club Reviews
After Senechal discovered – in denmark – that there’s a newly founded group of people playing where I live, I decided to pay them a visit. So far I’ve been there four times total and upon that discovery, osamu promptly gaped at me to write about it. So I did.
Good evening everyone, this is s25k speaking! It’s been ages since the tournament and I’m finally going to give you some of my impressions of this weekend. The Oranda Saikou in Utrecht (17.-18.9.2011) was probably one of the tournament highlights in Riichi-Europe this year: 2
Japan
Osamuko members seem to be prone to going to Japan. Deniz, ronronronronron, and now me. As some of you know, I went to Japan to play some mahjong. I’m in Amagasaki-shi right now, in Kansai. I have never been here before, but I always enjoyed playing some mahjong online
Mahjong Parlor
Mahjong isn’t really a popular game in Korea. Actually it’s not popular at all. People recognize the game when they hear it, or when they see the tiles, but it is very hard to find a person who actually plays unless they are Chinese or Japanese. I went
We’ve been playing quite a bit of Touhou Online Battle [http://tim.cstj.net/mathieuauclair/tob/index.php] since it surfaced on /jp/. Ironically enough the link was originally posted in a thread about failed /jp/ projects. It caught on and the server logged about ~10000 matches in the
It’s time for the last tile history (more like Kanji history, right?) entry. We’ve the honours left: 三元牌 (Sangenpai), or the Dragons, and 風牌 (Kazehai), or the Winds. Important tiles, I’m sure you’ll agree with, but surprisingly hard to find solid information about. Also, I’ve
Players
Following the last article on Tsuchida Koushou [https://osamuko.com/tsuchida-koushou-homage/], I want to keep introducing professional players from Japan. Today’s article features Kawamura Akihiro (川村晃裕) from the 日本プロ麻雀協会 (Japanese Professional Mahjong Association), and I actually got to make him some questions for this article. Kawamura Akihiro (川村晃裕) was
Mahjong Parlor
This past December just before new years, I had the chance to visit Takunori Kajimoto at his mahjong school in Tokyo. The place wasn’t his, but he was going and working there once every week. It was kinda far away from the center of Tokyo, about a 40 min.