Giant Italian Mahjong TilesUDINE, May, 10th - Players of the mahjong club at Udine, Italy, presented themselves with gigantic mahjong tiles during the 2012 Far East Film Festival. Playing with the extraordinatiy tiles was welcomed by lots of spectators.
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| Written by P B |
| Friday, 23 July 2010 10:02 |
| If you actually read the article, Ian is definitely not suggesting that mistakes should not be punished; he's advocating punishing amistake when it damages the opponents. Let's respect and enforce the rules; but let's not have punishing rules for the sake of it. As Bunta points out, all the cases mentioned by Ian can be resolved easily in a friendly way without affecting the game. It doesn't matter whether it's a tournament or a kitchen game; you should enforce rules that make sure none of the players is damaged by other players' mistakes, but nothing else. And the sad reality is that the attitude of the people who enforce some of these rules is not one of fairness, but one of taking advantage of these rules in order to get points, which is rather ugly. And in the worse cases, this will go to the next level, which I have sadly seen during this year's Guildford tournament, where a very experienced player who regularly plays in Riichi tournaments around Europe tried to convince some less experienced players that declaring Reach with an open hand was a chombo. Of course he knew that wasn't the case, but he tried to get an unfair advantage. Fostering an attitude of fair and friendly play, with a sensible set of rules, will discourage this type of behaviour, encourage more people to join and enjoy the game and participate in tournaments. Just this month I read an interview where Fulvio Fantoni, the number one bridge player in the world rankings, speaks passionately about the importance of friendliness and pleasantness in the game, including club and tournaments playing, and how much he dislikes people who call referees all the time to complain about tiny rules infringements by their opponents. If this principles and attitude is good enough for somebody who's won several world championships in a game much more complex than mahjong, I say it's good enough for us. |
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