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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
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
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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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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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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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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
Players
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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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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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
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I've been playing Jansou Mode a little, lately. It is the newest addition to Tenhou. But it is probably the first time for many playing in this mode. Today, the explanation is on how to better understand the way to make profit in Jansou Mode. (Warning, it's a bit loooong.
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This is xKime [http:/arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=xkime], aka Kimecchi [http:/arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=%E3%81%8D%E3%82%81%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A1] . Just another online mahjong player/writer [http:/riichiblog.blogspot.com/] from the depths of Tenhou.net,
Tournaments
UPDATE: Due to being busylazy, we haven't published the answers to the quiz until now. We apologize for the inconvenience to our dear readers. orz You can find the answers to the quiz now at the end of this article. Thanks to Ben for providing us with the answers! As
Guides
Now, I’ve seen many people write small articles here and there about where the best place to get a mahjong tile set is. I originally planned to write this a long time ago but now is as good a time as ever. For one, if you do not have
Guides
Minor update: Thanks to some recent fixing by Osamu you can now add comments on the guide pages themselves. Well, if the need to strikes you, of course, it-it’s not like we did it so we can read your feedback! Hello there! We have created a beginners guide to
Entertainment
1. Always attack, unless you should be defending. 2. Always defend, unless you should be attacking. 3. If you are an expert like me, you can even try attacking and defending at the same time. 4. Only deal tiles that other players cannot use, or you will be helping them
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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