Europe may host 1st WC Riichi. MaybeAMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, January, 27th - There is a chance that a first world championship riichi mahjong will be held the years to come. And this might very well take place somewhere in Europe. This is stated in a report, written for the Dutch mahjong association. Picture: The Second European Mahjong Championship, Hanover, Germany, 2010. Read more…
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Page 1 of 3 The dream of Kajimoto An exclusive interview with Kajimoto, one of the bridgeheads of mahjong in Japan. In which he tells about his education, his career, mahjong tactics - and about his dreams.
Tokyo, Japan, around 1990. Takunori Kajimoto was in his twenties. He worked in a mahjong parlor and played three hundred games of mahjong every month. It was a hard job.Kaji tells: ‘Everyday day I had to work twelve hours. Besides that, I participated in a training meeting every other week. ‘The work in the parlor lasted from 10 in the morning until 10 at night, and I went to the meeting until 5 p.m. I could sleep for two or three hours before I had to go back to work. With a feeling of understatement, Kajimoto says: ‘I think those were hard days.’ But all those hard days, he just kept on working because he had a dream: one day, he would have his own mahjong parlor. A way of lifeTakunori Kajimoto is one of many Japanese for whom mahjong is a way of life. But, unlike many other Japanese, he has chosen to be not just a player. Last June, he was in Hanover, Germany, as a supervisor at the first European Riichi Mahjong Championship. As an expert in Riichi mahjong, no-one could do a better job in advising the referees.Also, he now is the personnel assistant of Mr. Kyoichiru Noguchi, the director of the Mahjong Museum in Chiba, one of the presidents of the Japan Mahjong Organizing Committee and, in the field of mahjong, one of the most powerful men in Japan. ‘Kaji’ played in various important championships, such as the World Championship in Mahjong (Tokyo, 2002) and the World Mahjong Championship (Chengdu, 2007). But he also writes books about mahjong. ‘I want to teach people how to play better. Also people outside Japan.’ In an exclusive interview with Mahjong News, he tells about the remarkable shift in his career and also how he sees the future of mahjong and the cooperation between Japan and Europe. ParlorIt all started in that Tokyo mahjong parlor. Kajimoto had decided that he wanted to be a mahjong professional. ‘I was interested in the world of pro players and wanted to play with them. To tell the truth, the parlor's owner was one of them. When I was confident that I would become a pro, I applied to take a qualifying examination through the owner in 1992.’ Kajimoto had trouble passing the exam; according to him because the examiner disliked the owner of Kaji’s parlor and apparently did not like Kajimoto as well. |
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When a player have a Calling hand - does he have to say the word calling or not?
Best regards
The only case in which you can place a voluntary ready declaration, is mentioned in rule #55; that is, when a player has a waiting hand on her initial draw.
Martin Rep