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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

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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&

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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