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 Anton |
| Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:39 |
| In the second part of my contribution I would like to look further into the cases that Ian put forward and make some suggestions to the EMA to improve our rule set. 1. In the first case North forgets to take his 13th tile. OK, but what did South see before he took his first tile? Two single tiles at the head of the living wall. Didn't that occur to him as strange? Why didn't he point out the irregularity at that moment? What tile did he take anyway? The one that should have been taken by North? In that case a malicious West could claim a dead hand for South too for taking a wrong tile of the wall! And if South had forgotten to take his 13th tile, what would West have done? Say nothing and take his tile under the tile that belonges to South? Probably not, he would hint South to take his tile. A malicious North could claim a dead hand for West because of 'passing information'. And if in the tangle of tile grabing that takes places after the wall has been opened any player is left with 8 tiles because the next player grabbed his tiles to quick, we would just be a little annoyed but repair the situation. And why is East often referred to as 'the Dealer'? Does that have any meaning? Having given all this some thought, I suggest EMA to state in the rule book: 'All players are responsible for a correct dealing procedure. East verifies all tiles have been taken and all players have been able to change any flower-tiles.' 2. In the second case we should distinguish two things: - the winning player is responsible to count and announce the value of his hand; - all players are responsible to correctly record the score; one writes, the other check; Suppose the scorer had erroneously noted West to be the discarder instead of South and the mistake was discovered, would we still say 'what is written cannot be undone'. I leave it to the Richii-experts to find under whose responsibility the error where Ian refers to should be, but advise the EMA to clearly state the responsibility of all players for correctly recording scores and calculating on the score sheet. 3. For the last situation, I believe EMA rules are quite clear already. First call sticks ! Apart from a source of fun, mahjong is also a game of skill, nerves and luck. My satisfaction with playing mahjong is that I can improve my game by studying situations, by evaluating alternative strategies, by being very aware of the possiblities my hand has and the appropriate actions to take when a certain tile is discarded. All this seperates good player from a better player. A good but slightly nervous player will make a mistake sometimes, but do we allow a nervous football player to try again when he misses a decisive penalty just because he was nervous? The best player has got skill, has nerves of steel and his/her fair share of luck. If we would arrange the game such that always the luckiest player would win, we might as well organize a lottery and put a video of the draw on YouTube. |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:58 |
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