IORMC Qualifiers (USA / Canada)
The North American Riichi Mahjong Association is looking for players to field teams for the 2016 Interational Online Riichi Mahjong Competition. The nations of the United States and Canada are each...
View ArticleThe Mahjong Meetup episode #7 broadcasts tomorrow
Tuesday, August 23rd, at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time The Mahjong Meetup will return. Dasuke will recap his mahjong travels in Japan. I’ll talk about running a live tile in person mahjong meetup and...
View ArticleWhat a Bit of Game Theory Can Teach Us by Paul Lederer
Saw this post on the Chicago Mahjong Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/chicagomahjong/ and thought this would be of interest to some — Frenetic Today I would like to talk about choices and options....
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Play Flexibly
Having finally joined the Twitter bandwagon I recently had the chance to chat with Makoto Fukuchi about a tile efficiency question found in a book he edited.  With the hand on the bottom, it’s...
View ArticleTentative Top 16 results from ERMC2016.
Hi there, We saw a glitch occur on the ERMC website. We are publishing a table of the top 16 as we see them, with no claims on accuracy, quality, or perfection. 1 Mikhail LUGOVKIN 137,550 2 Désirée...
View ArticleTotori-sensei 19 years old wins the first season of Tenhoui vs Renmei
Photo from Ben and Deniz This year JPML collaborated with Tenhou and hosted a 6 month long Tenhoui vs Renmei pro tournament. The first season used a Tenhou based ruleset with 50/20/0/70 uma, red fives,...
View ArticleProfessional Mahjong Commentary on Mondo in English!
MondoTV have uploaded 2 videos with English commentary by mahjong researcher Benjamin Boas and mahjong author Ryan Morris. Benjamin’s contribrutions to the community should be fairly well known to...
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Good Players Club 7th Grand Champion Cup
Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating as part of the...
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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...
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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....
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[cross post] International Mahjong Battle @ RTD
(Photos and various parts of this post are from http://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658) in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno of PML, I emailed...
View ArticleEquipments 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...
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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...
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Upcoming (online) tournaments
1.Summer Global Open (or Winter if you are in the southern hemisphere) It’s an open tournament, so everyone can register, provided that they are available at the designated time. Info:...
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2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 1 - Prologue
The 2017 World Riichi Championship took place in Las Vegas last week and attracted 224 players, almost doubling the participant size from its predecessor, making it no doubt the largest Japanese...
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2017 World Riichi Championship Las Vegas - Report Part 2 - Tournament
Day 3 - Thursday 5th I woke up rather early. Even though I went to bed at 3am, I woke up at 6am. Jet lag? I wasn't feeling tired though. While confirming where the breakfast was, I saw Toshiyuki...
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World Riichi Championship 2017 Player Profile: Masaharu Tomotake
Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: 24th Hououi (2004) 2nd World...
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International Mahjong Battle @ RTD
(Featured photo and various parts of this post are from Mahjong Watch in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno of PML, I emailed Shingo Tsunoda, creator...
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A History of Tenhou - Part 1
Release history until Tenhou: June 2000 - 25-year-old Tokyo University School of Engineering Postdoctoral student Shingo "C-Egg" Tsunoda released his first game, a free to play RTS 'Egg Market'. Egg...
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Yuudai Maehara Defends Hououisen Title
Yuudai Maehara 9 Dan held on to Japan Professional Mahjong League's highest title for the 2nd year. Yuudai has won the Hououisen four times (1995, 2008, 2016, 2017) and shares the record of winning the...
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