The World Champion SingsUTRECHT, the Netherlands, August 29th - Chinese player Linghua Jiao (left), sings a duet with one of the other Chinese players after she is laureated as the new world champion in mahjong. The WMC2010 was closed this afternoon.
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The remarkable about Washizu mahjong is that it is played with a set, where three out of every four tiles are transparent; only one of each specimen is opaque. So, special arrangements have to be made to hide the tiles that are in the living wall and in the dead wall. For that purpose, Dutch player Cor Hoogland designed a Washizu top piece, and he built a number of them for the tournament. After the tournament, which was organized by Mahjong News, the 24 players evaluated the game. Tradition
The players also liked the venue, the 'Buitenplaats' in the Dutch town of Arnhem. More pictures of the tournament The final resultsThe final classification of the 'Washizu in Holland' competition.
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ARNHEM, the Netherlands - A small group of invited guests today have enjoyed a riichi tournament where Washizu rules were used. It was a test to see if these rules, which actually only exist in the Japanese ‘Akagi’ manga, really can be applied in a tournament, and if they are fun in the first place.
Although the better part of the players never took the game too seriously, most of them appeared to really have enjoyed it. Mahjong News seriously considers to make it a yearly tradition.Mahjong Time
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I've yet to properly try out Washizu mahjong against people (I have the Akagi game for the Nintendo DS), but my impression is that teams add quite a lot to the strategy of it, and I feel that playing it with four individuals rather than two teams would mean that people would rarely win except for by tsumo. With teams things can work a bit differently.
It was an individual tournament indeed. But mainly because we had no idea how to play it in teams. Perhaps you could share some ideas and insights with us… You know where to reach us!
We might even invite you for the next Washizu event ;-)
Greetz
Martin