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A collection of 42 posts

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Common mistakes (4)

Not so common, more like silly mistakes. 1.In a recently played match, I had the following tenpai: Dora: 6m (Hatsu was pon'd)Nothing special, it's a tenpai waiting on 78m. Then I drew 4m. It's either 4666m with 45m wait or 6668 with 78m wait. Better discard 4m since

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[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part 2 (Calling when cornered, chasing after riichi)

In the first part, we introduced ASAPIN’s criteria for opening his hands, and calling to elongate and switch out shapes. This time, we will discuss melding when you’re cornered, chasing after riichi by melding, this is the essence of ASAPIN’s mahjong technique.

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[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part I

Original article by Kentaro on his blog [http://saikyo-jansi.com/2017/11/02/%E3%80%90%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E3%80%91%E9%B3%B3%E5%87%B0%E5%8D%93%E5%BC%B7%E8%80%85%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B625%EF%BC%9Aasapin%E3%

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My Discord server. Common mistakes (3)

Recently, I opened a new Discord server, with the purpose of having more quality discussions about the competitive aspect of the game. This is for people who want to improve and learn how to be as good as they can possibly be, and as such not recommended for people who

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Equipments for Tokujou

If you are a Tenhou player, you should have known that there are 4 different rooms for 4 different levels: Ippan, Joukyuu, Tokujou, Houou. Before getting to the main parts of this article, let’s see what those 4 levels are about – those descriptions are from the famous Riichi Book

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An awesome video guide from the internet. Common mistakes (2)

First of all, I want to show you a really good video guide that was created recently. The author is DdR_Dan, a player from US, who is staying consistently at 6d on tenhou, even got 7d in the past. Although it’s a little long, in my opinion it’

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Common mistakes (1), plus my introduction

Hey there, I’m starfire, a.k.a amaika on tenhou.net. Some of you might have known me, some might not. I have played riichi since 2012. Now that I have become a decent player, 7d at the time posting this (even though I’m fully aware that I

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Play Flexibly

Having finally joined the Twitter bandwagon [https://twitter.com/Muller_Mahjong] I recently had the chance to chat with Makoto Fukuchi about a tile efficiency question found in a book he edited [https://www.amazon.co.jp/麻雀-傑作「何切る」300選-G・ウザク/dp/4861998948]. With the hand on the bottom, it's

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Yaku, Hai!: Riichi (& Ippatsu & Daburu Riichi)

In order to be able to build the best hands, you need to know both how to plan out your play with a hand, and how to execute that plan. This is the essence of hand development: taking that group of 13 useless tiles you start with, and using them

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Judgment is important: small mistakes do matter

Let’s go back to the basics of riichi judgment. East 1, flat situation. You receive this hand. Do you riichi? If you’ve got your basics well learned, you should know the correct judgment is riichi. Looking at your own hand, pinfu and riichi is good enough and the

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Overview of Mahjong Parlors and Why You Can't Really Win

As this is a blog written in English, I think we can assume most people reading it probably don’t have access to mahjong parlors. Then again, this is a mahjong blog as well, so some people have. The point here is, is betting your money in a parlor a

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Mahjong Keypoints: How to become the strongest, 1

Last year I bought a bunch of Kindai Mahjong magazines and read through most of them. I skipped most of the manga and concentrated on the mahjong articles (yes, I am a bitter man, and you can sue me later). In one of my editions of Kindai Mahjong Original, Houou

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Basic Defense Techniques in Mahjong

Hi, tenpaiman here (aka TMN or TemporaryMobileName or whatever else I happen to prefer to be called on any given day). Today I decided to do a translation of a mahjong article by totsugeki touhoku [とつげき東北], author of the famous Kagaku Suru Ma-jan series of books on digital playing and

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Tenhou Secrets

Hi. xkime here. So, you have learned all yaku, played for a few years, you are very confident about your tile efficiency skills, and whenever you defend you rarely deal into anyone, but somehow you just cannot rank up at Tenhou. I hope that these little hints will help you.

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List of Mahjong Articles in English by xKime

Quick list of articles about mahjong (and theory!) I’ve written or translated and published online. You can’t complain about the lack of theory anymore! !Update! I've got a Mahjong Blog [https://npmahjong.com/] now where I'm posing new articles. Check it out too! NPMahjong What is a Professional

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Playing a good game, and losing

"I didn't deal in even once, and still got fourth." "The other three people totally sucked, but I ended up last." "I played a perfect game, and I still lost!" Yeah, hold it right there. I think you're overestimating yourself. Or at least, you're not looking at your game objectively.

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Consistency

Theory, theory… I can’t really write any. It’s all so very theoretical. Instead of that I can give you right here right now, today, a piece of advice that is sure to help most beginner and some intermediate players, and it is about consistency. What I mean when

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SEX

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

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More strategy! Honors

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 completely wrote by xkime." Enjoy.

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Concealed vs Exposed

Tile efficiency works just okay for one's own hand, but what about the tiles that flow out? Obviously, you shouldn't call every single one of them, but that doesn't mean you should ignore them either. How to judge? What to consider when calling? Well, the basics are sumed up in

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Tile Efficiency 101 (Part 5) Climaxing

Be prepared to read. You may have very well been able to understand the last pages in the original Japanese with the picture, but the following content is mainly theoric text, so unless you could understand it, you were missing on a lot. I'm not back yet, but this post

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Tile Efficiency 101 (Part 4)

The more I've been playing lately, especially on fast tables, the more I see how you need to have tile efficiency theory very in mind. Especially in nashi-nashi games, where you can't just kui-tan your way to a full hand. So, I decided we should go on. Let's resume from

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Pechorin Style Doctrine

Do you ever feel like Tenhou is designed just to hold you back and that this game sucks, you have bad luck, you must be weak and you will never progress to the next dan (or kyuu) level? Then there is something wrong with your soul. You should read this.

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Tile Efficiency 101 (Part 3)

Part 3 of the Tile Efficiency series for Osamuko.com is here. This time, it's taatsu theory. More precisely? Ryankan. I skipped a few parts of things you should already know. If you don't, then read: > Tiles from 3 to 7 are the most flexible. 2's and 8's are a

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Tile Efficiency 101 (Part 2)

The last post on tile efficiency was kind of basic, so today's article now introduces the concepts we are going to use in the future articles. Especially, Shan-Ten (how many away), Uke-Ire (the amount of tiles that move you one shanten closer to tenpai) and Good Shape Evolution (when your