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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
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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,
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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
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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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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 most widely used rules in Japan Translation
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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 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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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