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• Martin Scheichenbauer Austrian Champion

  Created: Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:14 Author: Staff

  BADEN - Martin Scheichenbauer is the new Austrian champion. The 'Orchid Tournament', which was concluded today at Baden, was the last of the four tournaments of the Austrian Champions Race. He collected just 0,5 point more than the runner-up, Günter Gint...

• Austrian delegation for WMC 2010

  Created: Sunday, 29 November 2009 20:44 Author: Staff

  BADEN - Ten Austrian players have won their tickets for the World Mahjong Championship 2010 in the Netherlands. The Orchid Tournament at Baden, concluded today, was the last qualification tournament for the WMC.  Two players were entitled to go sinc...

• This is the Dutch delegation for the World Championship

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 13:49 Author: Staff

  UTRECHT - The Dutch have their delegation for the World Mahjong Championship 2010. After the Daja/Thirteen Orphans Tournament, last weekend at Berlicum, the final classification was made up. The Dutch delegation consists of 28 players, although it is like...

• Italians WMC2010 ranking after ‘Mestre’

  Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 13:28 Author: Staff

  (Updated after the qualification tournament in Mestre, January 17)  MESTRE - The new ranking of the Italian qualification competition for the World Championship 2010 in Holland, after the Fourth Qualification Tournament in Mestre (January 17th). Italy...

• Too good a mahjong hand kills 56-year-old

  Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:32 Author: Staff

  CHONGQING - A resident of Chongqing municipality died of hypertension after he won a nail-biting game of mahjong in his residential community last week.The 56-year-old deceased, surnamed Zhang, suddenly collapsed after winning the hand. He was rushed to t...

• Prosecutor conned by gamblers

  Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:20 Author: Staff

  BEIJING - A chief prosecutor surnamed Fang from Jiangxi province, in Beijing for training, was conned out of 1,000 yuan (146 USD, 98 euros) by three men while playing mahjong in April. The three men were charged with fraud at Shijingshan district court, t...

• Wife rides look-alike bike in mahjong mania

  Created: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:01 Author: Staff

  NANJING - A woman in Nanjing, Jiangsu province was mistaken for a thief after she made off with an electric-powered bike that looked the same as her husband's....

• MORSE Unofficial after DIY German Online Open

  Created: Monday, 09 November 2009 11:06 Author: Adrie van Geffen

  ROTTERDAM - Because it took so long for the ranking to become public, I decided to calculate the results myself. Doing that I discovered some ‘errors’. The most important one was that disqualified players (not turning up) were removed from the results...

• ‘Briesje’ wins alternative for German Online Open; new MORSE Unofficial Ranking

  Created: Monday, 09 November 2009 10:00 Author: Adrie van Geffen

  SAN DIEGO - Player 'briesje' (Dimphy van Grinsven from the Netherlands) has won the alternative German Online Open Mahjong Championship, last weekend. Runner-up was her fellow-countryman a3geffen (Adrie van Geffen), third place was for Rostved66 (Frank Ro...

• ‘No World Championship without automatic tables’

  Created: Monday, 09 November 2009 08:48 Author: Martin Rep

  UTRECHT - The World Championship 2010 should be played on automatic tables. Says Dutch mahjong player Barend Reijn, who, as an extra income, transacts business in mahjong tables. He has worked out a project to buy the automatic tables cheaply and, at the ...