Warsaw riichi competition: no yakuman, but high emotions instead
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- Created on Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:27
- Last Updated on Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:47
- Written by Szymon Lasota
WARSAW - A cloudy Sunday morning (May 12, 2013) in Warsaw welcomed participants in ERMCQ2013 - another tournament organised by the Polish League of Mahjong. The event took place at the Culture Promotion Centre in 2 Podskarbińska St.
World Series in Star Hotel Sydney cancelled
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- Created on Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:18
- Last Updated on Friday, 17 May 2013 06:32
- Written by Martin Rep
(Update: more info, new picture)
SYNEY - There will be no World Series of Mahjong Tournament in the Star Hotel in Syney, next month. Players who already paid, will get back their registration money.
Germans celebrate anniversary with triple tournament
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- Created on Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:57
- Last Updated on Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:59
- Written by Staff
EDEWECHT, Germany - The German Mah-Jongg League (DMJL) was founded ten years ago. The oldest European national mahjong organisation will celebrate this with a Jubilee Tournament on October, Saturday 26th and Sunday, 27th, with a triple tournament.
Désirée Heemskerk Budapest champion
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- Created on Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:23
- Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:38
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BUDAPEST - Dutch player Désirée Heemskerk today has won the Red Dragon Tournament (MCR, MERS 1), in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Sylvain Malbec: ‘A very interesting contest’
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- Created on Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:15
- Last Updated on Sunday, 05 May 2013 13:17
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AMSTERDAM/MOSCOW – “It was good to be confronted with remarkable mahjong situations”, says Sylvain Malbec, winner of Mahjong News’s Sherlock Holmes Mahjong Mystery competition. “It was a very interesting contest”
Mahjong and Tai Chi offer hope for people with dementia
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- Created on Monday, 22 April 2013 12:18
- Last Updated on Monday, 22 April 2013 12:31
- Written by Martin Rep
HONG KONG – Good news in the struggle against dementia. According a recent study, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, mahjong and tai chi can delay cognitive decline in older people with dementia.
‘Dutch Riichi Open’ for Frenchman Huynh
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- Created on Sunday, 14 April 2013 20:54
- Last Updated on Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:16
- Written by Martin Rep
BERLICUM/HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands - Just like last year, a French player has won the Sakura Taikai (Cherry Blossom Tournament) in the Dutch village of Berlicum. In the final hanchan, Joe-Calberson Huynh was beaten by his competitor Martin Rep, but still he ended on the first place, with just 4,600 points over Mr. Rep, who was rewarded with the consolation prize of ‘Dutch Riichi Champion 2013’. Forty players from five countries competed in this two days’ MERS 2 tournament.
‘Udine 2013’ for Franceso Martini; Gourmet Cup for A. Doppelhofer
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- Created on Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:40
- Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 23:16
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UDINE, Italy - Italian player Franceso Martini has won the Udine 2013 tournament (MCR, MERS 1), which was concluded today. Also the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 in this competition were all Italian. The tournament was part II of the yearly Italian-Austrian Gourmet Cup, which was won by Alexander Doppelhofer from Austria. 52 players competed in the Udine Tournament, all from Italy and Austria.
Pavel Anokhin strongest in Saint Petersburg
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- Created on Sunday, 14 April 2013 11:54
- Last Updated on Friday, 19 April 2013 14:52
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St. PETERSBURG - The Saint Petersburg Tournament 2013 (MCR, MERS1) is won by Pavel Anokhin, before Aleksandr Babuskin and Tatyana Martynenko. 28 players, all Russians. competed at seven tables.
Philip Bielby winner of ‘Great Scholars’ in England
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- Created on Saturday, 06 April 2013 23:14
- Last Updated on Sunday, 14 April 2013 21:19
- Written by Martin Lester
(Update: with full results)
OXFORD, England - Philip Bielby has won the first ‘Great Scholars’ riichi tournament in Great Britain. Runner-up was Aidan Robison, number three Paola Bungaro. Apart from French player Olivier Aubrun, the top-ten in this MERS 1 competition was all English. There were 24 participants.
Renato Tiengo, ‘King of Venice’, passed away
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- Created on Monday, 01 April 2013 18:04
- Last Updated on Sunday, 21 April 2013 06:40
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MESTRE, Italy - Renato Tiengo of the Italian mahjong club Tre Palle has passed away today. On the website of the Italian mahjong federation, he is remembered as the ‘King of Venice’.
It is difficult to judge the difficulty of problems, but some did take me some time to solve.
I especially enjoyed the '32nd of December' and its fourth question.
Thanks to Vitaly for the problems, to Martin for hosting the "venue" and congrats to Sylvain and Scott for their success.
A: two kongs of the same suit (i.e. 8 one-suit tiles) and a kong of wind
So... winds are now suit tiles?
And they are in every suit?
Wow!
Looks like I've misunderstood the question and it was actually an easy one!
Was it because I was the only one to answer the question within the allotted time?
Just curious.
Thanks.
At first, it looks like each player had three pure melded kongs, two of them separated by two numbers (e.g. 1 and 4), and that their left-side neighbour is waiting for these two said kongs with a ryanmen (e.g. _23_).
But it turns out there are not enough tiles for that.
So, here's the trick:
Watson had: melded: 1111m 4444m 5555m, concealed: 23s EE.
Lestrade had: melded: 1111s 4444s 5555s, concealed: 23p SS.
Holmes had: melded: 1111p 4444p 5555p, concealed: 78m WW.
Mrs. Hudson had: melded: 6666m 9999m, concealed: RRRR(concealed kong) 23m NN, and erronously melded as flowers: 2223m.
It certainly "cut off all conceivable scenarios".