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AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, January, 27th - There is a chance that a first world championship riichi mahjong will be held the years to come. And this might very well take place somewhere in Europe. This is stated in a report, written for the Dutch mahjong association. Picture: The Second European Mahjong Championship, Hanover, Germany, 2010. Read more…
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Written by Adrie van Geffen   
Saturday, 01 August 2009 11:22
MCR is interesting for its combinations give the opportunity to switch from one to the other. No 'furiten' rule that puts you out. Some dislike towards MCR?
 
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1 Monday, 12 October 2009 12:13
Alan Kwan
I dislike MCR because it sells the potential depth of pattern-building mahjong very short.

In a real pattern-building game (such as Zung Jung), you can win on any regular hand (instead of being limited to a much smaller subset), so you always have a lot of flexibility. But the winning hands do differ very much in value, and the player's judgement is called for to balance the risk against the gains. [...]

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