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MahjongNews has just released an unofficial list of the best European riichi tournament players of 2009 [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/rankings/various-rankings/650-bestriichiplayers2009.html] . For some reason, drob is in there. In spot #37. As the only Swede. If I’m not mistaken, this makes him the
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After I started playing mahjong, I learned one thing very fast. It is great to be in the lead. It’s not just great. It is amazingly awesome. You are like a champion looking down on the rabble, watching them scrabble around for crumbs from your table, more often than
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Crossposted to 0x23mahjong, because I’m awesome that way. A simple yaku overview sheet (2 pages), based on tenhou’s yaku table [http://tenhou.net/man/#YAKU]. No scoring tables, no rules. Image quality sucks, because I’m too lazy to do better (sue me). Spot any mistakes just tell
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After a certain tournament in Europe, I stayed behind and played a few games with some other people who also stayed behind. I asked them if they wanted to play with open tanyao, since I hadn’t had a chance to do so for the entire day (given that the
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These rules were written in Baba Hirokazu and Katayama Masayuki's book Bakatsuki Typhoon [http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/481240925X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=osamuko-22&linkCode=as2&camp=247&creative=1211&creativeASIN=481240925X] and are the
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I’ll come out and be a little honest here. When I started writing for Osamu’s blag I wanted to do something special, to make a difference. There is virtually zero English material on the internet, which is surprising in itself, especially as people are extolling their helpful communities
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Well, nobody has written any articles on here for a long time, so MOUIKKAI asked me to whip something up for this blog. However, since I was wasting time with Jun Watarase and Torchlight, an article was posted yesterday, so I can’t be the first article in whatever. Oops,
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European mahjong associations cancel cooperation with MahjongTime [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/reports/436-mjtproblems.html] From MahjongNews, the world’s #1 source of any news whatsoever that turns up when you google ‘mahjong’ [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/trivia/427-tcm.html]. Seriously guys, there’
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Well hello there. It seems that some strategy for defending against specific yaku is in order here! Today, I shall discuss some ways to fight back against THEM TOITOIS, as well as those “yakuhai + rage” hands people complain about. If you’ve been playing Mahjong for a while then you
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And we’re still stumbling about like newborn babes! I found this little gem in my logfile of enormousness: [17:24] Osamu|sleep> I’m gonna create a blog [17:24] Osamu|sleep> probably won’t be helpful since I suck [17:31] MOUIKKAI> make it [17:
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If you are part of a mahjong-playing community, as opposed to grinding on 0000 in a vacuum all day, only pausing between matches to take a swig of your bottled green tea, I’m sure by now you’ll have played in several tournaments. Well, I’m fairly certain of
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This is a public service post to increase awareness of one of the most exciting things you can add to your Mahjong game: Open Riichi. Open Riichi is a nonstandard or “local” yaku which means you won’t find too many places that allow it. There also isn’t a