On Friday afternoons I play mahjong with two Japanese ladies, one of whom was a complete beginner a few months ago. Mahjong has replaced English conversation, except inasmuch as I offer advice and game analysis in English. We play 4-player Riichi-style, but with elements of 3-player Mahjong thrown in. For [Read more…]
Two weeks ago Nobu achieved his first positive result for 2010 by finishing on +1 for the evening. The result was achieved by finishing “second-and-in-the-black” in the first and third games. There was a moment in the opening game when the gap between Nobu and Jaime narrowed to fewer than [Read more…]
Neil, a former Lang Education Center English language teacher who now works as a roving Japanese translator and resides in the nether regions of Kyushu, emerged from his self-imposed exile and returned to Hiroshima to celebrate his thirty-somethingth birthday with a night of mahjong at Kodama jansou. Noda held on [Read more…]
Here is a belated history of the 2009 winter campaign at the Cock’s-Eye Mahjong Club. The last time I wrote anything here, Noda had got into second place while David was shedding points and defending gains and Hide was also threatening to take the crown. Noda’s year-end winning streak continued [Read more…]
The situation remains very tight indeed at the top of this year’s 3-Player Mahjong table. Two weeks ago Hide enjoyed a big win in the final game of the session, largely at Noda’s expense, which was a good enough result for him to come top for the evening, overtake Noda [Read more…]
Noda finally made it to the top spot, bringing David’s five-month reign to an end in a session played at Kodama on Friday 3nd October. Actually, both Noda and David advanced in the course of the game, at the expense of Jaime whose progress up the table to second place [Read more…]
I have a little catching up to do. As we left things, Yasu had departed the scene on -152/1 and David had broken the year’s best game record and landed in the top spot. Meanwhile, Jaime was busy maintaining a steady upward march as well. One more game was played [Read more…]
What is believed to be the first Japanese Riichi Mahjong Tournament ever to be staged in the UK will be taking place on August 22nd, 2009, at the Guildford Golf Club in Surrey, England. The organisers, Ian Fraser and Peter Langford participated in the European Riichi Mahjong Championship in Hanover, [Read more…]
Jaime and Nobu came over to David’s place for a quiet afternoon’s mj last Tuesday, right in the middle of the Golden Week holidays. The first game was a relatively quiet affair. Nobu went out on “Ron” on a 3-Coin, 6-Coin wait not noticing (a) that he was waiting for [Read more…]
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