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 Christopher Rowe |
| Monday, 26 July 2010 18:10 |
| Something specifically for point 1, after discussing this with a few fellow players, is that the EMA rules state a chombo penalty must be paid for "claiming a tile after the hand is declared a dead hand". I would argue strongly that the hand was not already declared a dead hand, and that it was wrong that the player paid a chombo penalty. The hand has to be already declared dead before the call is made, and this was not the case for the incident as it has been described. A personal story of mine would be that during the UK Open I'd riichi'd on quite a nice hand, and was I think understandably pretty eager for it to go out. I made the mistake of thinking a 7 Pin I'd drawn was a 6 Pin and called Tsumo, instantly realising my mistake and withdrawing the call. I was extremely grateful for Martin Rep, Jaewon Yu and James Neve, who I was playing with at the time, for not being harsh and punishing what was a fairly fundamental but also, in the moment, understandable mistake. It had nothing to do with lack of knowledge or skill but was because I'm a human being and as a result susceptible to making mistakes on occasion. I think there's important things that make a difference to whether someone should pay a chombo or not, and my incident highlighted a few of them. I noticed the mistake myself, I noticed immediately (before I'd even finished saying 'Tsumo') and I noticed before anything else happened. I didn't reveal any tiles in my hand, nor did anyone else. The only difference it made to the game was that I'd given a pretty good hint at what tile I was likely to be waiting for, something which only punishes me anyway. The fact that almost no time has elapsed and that ultimately the mistake made no difference to the game's flow (or at least none in my favour) is important in my view. It's debatable about where the line should be drawn, but I think it's usually fairly clear whether the player has made a significant mistake and affected the game (a chombo) or has just gotten caught up in things and made a small error (a dead hand or less). Also from the UK Open was an incident of someone deliberately making their first discard before drawing a tile from the wall (not a good habit, admittedly) being called out that their hand should be declared a dead hand because it contains only 12 tiles for all of about half a second. Technically true, but but still a ridiculously over-exuberant attempt to enforce rules. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 18:32 |
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