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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| The meaning of friendly |
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| Written by P B |
| Monday, 26 July 2010 10:15 |
| The concept of being friendly, in English, doesn't require at all that you expect to become friends. You can be friendly to a perfect stranger by, say, giving him directions, or helping a mum get a pram out of a bus. You'll never see them again, and you won't know their name, but you've been friendly. This is what I'd expect from any decent person in any circumstance - including at a mahjong table. We can use other words if you like - polite, nice, kind, fair etc. You can rightly call a chombo on a person and do it in a nice way, or you can do it in a nasty way, for instance gloating openly over your opponent's mistake. I guess the good news is that, whatever Senechal thinks should happen at a mahjong table, I can say that every single person I played with in Hannover was actually polite and friendly, and a few let minor "infractions" go (amend the scores after they were written down, not penalizing a player for calling pon instead of mahjong in a couple of occasions), so it looks like that's more the rule than the exception. And that includes players who ended at the top, and whose game was clearly good enough for them to do very well without having to resort to looking to penalize their opponents. It is for me sad to hear that other people instead had some bad experience, and that's why I hope that the majority of players who seem to naturally bring politeness, respect and good old common sense to the table will manage to imprint their attitude on the way the game is played in the future. Not once I advocated ignoring rules or not penalizing people for breaking rules (and neither does Ian); I repeat, let's all follow the rules but let's get rid of rules that penalize players for small mistakes that do not damage opponents. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 10:19 |
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