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Tina Christensen (center) in the OEMC 2011 in Italy.

Tina Christensen has decided to resign as president of the European Mahjong Association because of her duties as a scientific advisor at the Danish Meteorological Institute. Mahjong News reflects upon the ‘Mahjong Lady’.

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OEMC 2017
From left 3rd place and new reigning European Champion Matthieu Pfeiffer (fr), winner Yoshihiro Suzuki (jp), and second place Linghua Jiao (cn).

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PÓVOA DE VARZIM, Portugal - Tournament winner for the second time in a row is... Yoshihiro Suzuki of Japan, followed by Linghua Jiao of China as runner up, and the new 2017 Open European Mahjong Champion is Matthieu Pfeiffer of France, finishing the tournament in 3rd.

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OEMC 2017
The boxes with the special sets, stored in Rui Machado’s living room.

PÓVOA DE VARZIM, Portugal – Rui Manuel Machado is angry. Or, as he prefers to say it himself: “I am pissed off.” 

The director of the Open European Mahjong Championship 2017 feels he is cheated by the exporter of the special mahjong sets which he had made in China. As a result of that, the sets will be more expensive than Rui had planned.

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Luc Humbert

PÓVOA DE VARZIM, Portugal - President of the Association Suisse de mahjong, Presidium member of the European Mahjong Association, and board member of the Mahjong International League, Luc Humbert, has been elected President of the EMA. Tina Christensen from Denmark, who had been president since 2011, had to lay down her function since she could not combine it any longer with her job duties. 

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Jheronimus Bosch

PÓVOA DE VARZIM, Portugal - This evening, the General Assembly of the EMA has decided to assign the Dutch Mahjong Association with the organization of the European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2019. The event will take place in the southern city of ’s-Hertogenbosch.

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OEMC 2017
Concentrated listening candidates. 

PÓVOA DE VARZIM, Portugal – As the players get more and more nervous and are longing to throw the dice and start the sixth Open European Mahjong Championship, today there’s other business at Póvoa de Varzim. In the casino of the Portuguese seaside resort, a referee seminar is held.

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Daina Chiba (on right) with Dragon Owl organizer Marek Wakuluk.

BIELAWA, Poland- If you are so lucky to live within traveling distance to Bielawa, Poland, then you are also fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of one of the few opportunities to sit in July 30th on a free world-class mahjong strategy course by Daina Chiba being held in conjunction with the July 29th Dragon Owl Riichi Contest.

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