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 Norbert Luckhardt |
| Monday, 26 July 2010 13:34 |
| Even if it may not be that obvious here, the rules behind the three scenarios, Ian wrote about, do make sense and help to avoid actions, which would possibly damage others. The general problem with rules (and laws etc.) is they have to be general - so if we think of eliminating the rules or rulings behind those scenarios, what would that mean? 1. forgotten 13th tile: If a player is allowed or even encouraged to tell somebody, that he forgot to take a tile, where could we draw the line? Why would it be different to tell somebody he layed out the wrong tiles in a chow? Both would help him avoid mistakes... Or maybe even tell him to strictly avoid discarding a dragon (if that'd be "dangerous") or talk otherwise about the situation at the table? A general rule of "not passing any information concerning the game" is short and easyly understandable. To allow or encourage helping in _some_ circumstances while forbidding to do that in others will at least need complex rules and may easily induce more problems than it solves (help in counting is clearly distinguishable, but within the game it would get complicated IMHO). Personally I think, it would be possible is allow players to explicitly state dead hands at the table, after the situation will no longer be changeable - this would lead to more clarity and at least nobody would be punished with a chombo, because he just didn't realize his/her hand was dead. However, this has been discussed for MCR before and up to now, the EMA decided that tournament players should be able to know themselves, if their hand is dead or not. 2. correction of score: actually there is no written rule about this - nevertheless there obviously needs to be a common ruling how to deal with that. IMHO it's generally a good idea to say it's fixed when it's written down and the math has been done. Otherwise extra time for another calculation would be needed and the score sheet easily gets cluttered. Anyway: The players should agree upon the _points_ before writing down the score, so the ruling might have better been different in the actual case... and anyway: if all players at a table agree to change the score, nobody will stop them. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 14:05 |
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