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A collection of 38 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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[Paifu Analysis] Is their Riichi hand expensive?

Orginal post: http://doraaka.exblog.jp/15552053/ by Kita Haz. Translation by Butane with permission Hi. Sorry to be getting straight to the point, but let’s say that you’re the dealer in a normal round, and on the 8th turn someone declares Riichi while your hand looks like

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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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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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Identifying Dangerous Suji

Suji are a popular defense strategy; so popular, in fact, that suji traps are an effective anti-defense. We would like to increase the yomi level and create an anti-anti-defense by identifying when suji traps are likely. Are there situations in which suji are more dangerous? Are they really traps, or

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I told you not to go for Kokushi

We’ve all been there: you’re dealt a hand with a lot of yaochuu tiles — ones, nines, and characters — and you find yourself asking, “Do I go for the stupid thing?” Despite being one of the most common yakuman, Kokushi Musou still boasts a wide arsenal of ways to

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Real Life Mahjong Stat Analyzer [Python]

Lately, some of us at IRC (the ones who didn’t know a thing about programming to begin with! most fellows are actually quite profficient at it) have started studying some Codecademy tracks, learned about different programming languages, datatypes, yaddayaddayadda. What started off as a project of mine to build

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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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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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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

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How to get better at Jansou Mode

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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Tile Efficiency 101 (Part 1)

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,