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Reach Mahjong has remodeled and we will no longer be posting new columns on this blog. Please check our website: Reach Mahjong: The Only Way to Play for your favorite blogs plus tons of new content! Here is the press release for the new RM:ReachMahjong.com Celebrates its First Birthday and Reopens its Doors On December 3rd, 2007, Reach Mahjong: The Only Way to Play reopened at http://

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November 9, 2007In Garthe's Hands #16I return this week to more hands that it may be a while before you ever get to see in the field. You may wonder why you should even bother remembering such hands if the possibility of finishing them is really so small. Indeed, they may not get finished often, but they will still have an impact, even when they aren't finished. The reason is that they tend to be

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Reach is becoming bigger and bigger and ReachMahjong.com is helping to lead the way! Coming up on our 1st Birthday (sometime in December), Reach Mahjong: The Only Way to Play has been part of lots of great new plans and is working on more as we speak!First, I'd like to announce the opening of MahjongMart.com: Your 'jong Experts. Andy from Yakitori Online and I have teamed together to bring you a

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October 11, 2007Gemma's Journal #15Teaching Week OneFinally, back in Taipei! Unfortunately my last Mahjong buddies all left me for mainland China, however, I now have a whole new group of Canadians who are more than a little keen to learn and enjoy the fantastic game which is Mahjong!So, now that my journal has taken you through the trials and tribulations of me, as a beginner, learning Mahjong,

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October 3, 2007Jenn's Corner #16Note: There was information that I forgot to add to the final 2 problems in Garthe's last column. I've fixed the problem, so please take a look and write your answers in the comment section.Now for MY column.I've spent a large amount of my time lately playing and watching a lot of poker. I have already mentioned how much I think learning poker has helped my mahjong

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September 22, 2007In Garthe's Hands #15Had a hard time deciding where to put today's column. It was originally just a response to Gemma's column, but then it was getting so long, it seemed like it might just be better to put it in with the columns. Hope I'm not stealing any of your thunder there, Gemma. So the topic of course, is the All Pairs hand. I have certainly shared Gemma's frustration

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Sept 6, 2007Gemma's Journal #14So, I'm in a bit of an in-between stage of my column. My next plan for my column is that I'll follow the progress of some new students of Mahjong to see how they fair. Hopefully we'll get their comments on the game and learning, and also your comments on my teaching method. It would be even better if I can motivate more people to spread the word as well! My new

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August 12, 2007Jenn's Corner #15: OEMCI took my first trip to Europe, using the excuse that my sister was studying/interning in Italy and stopping in Copenhagen for the 2nd OEMC. This was the first tournament I ever attended that used the Chinese Official rules and also the first tournament I attended that offered no cash prizes for the winners. The organizers are all volunteering and this was

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August 2, 2007In Garthe's Hands #14A little tired of reading about hands that you can only dream about? Well before we finish our tour of Fantasy Island (That would be the group of Limit Hands), how about if we return to a hand you'll see almost every other hand or so, Peace. There's a disturbing lack of it in the world today. But at least we can click our tiles together and make a little of it

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July 26, 2007Gemma's Journal #13So this will be my final scoring post - Answers to the last post! Unfortunately this has required a lot (probably too much) thinking on my part!Remember to work out the hand points first and then if it’s less than four you’ll have to work out the troublesome base points!(Also I think I’m using a slightly simplified scoring table for beginners.)Question OneSeat =

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July 11, 2007Jenn's Corner #14: Playing in the World Series of MahjongI went to Macau last month as a member of the press, planning to cover this inaugural event for ReachMahjong.com and ended up the only American female to play in the competition. I didn't know until the night before that I would be able to compete, so I had not learned the rules as thoroughly as I would have liked to. I had

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July 6, 2007In Garthe's Hands #13Let's have some fun today. Well, dream a little anyway. I've covered nearly all the hands in Reach Mahjong at least once now and that includes the vast majority of the hands that you will ever see in your Mahjong careers even if you should decide to play 20 hours a day for the next 10 years. Limit hands are like Straight Flushes in Poker: they only happen once

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June 29, 2007Gemma's Journal #12After last entries disaster I am back and this time better prepared! I hope everyone forgives me!Here is the new questions:Question OneSeat = EastSelf DrawnQuestion TwoSeat = NorthWon off of someone else's discardQuestion ThreeSeat = SouthWon off of someone else's discardI hope I remembered everything this time! Also, I'd like to apologise for the delay in emailing

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June 13, 2007Jenn's Corner #13Another pictureless, but not an imageless column.First, updates, since that is my jobRon2 translation is finished, waiting for administration to get the thing into action. I know everyone is excited and waiting for it, so I’m really trying to push them as hard as I can, but they’re tough!Next, website. I have been working really hard on the Hand List. Keep in mind

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June 2, 2007In Garthe's Hands #12We have a request!! One faithful reader has expressed an interest in hands that are not "hands". Most of the hands I've covered so far involve some specific combination of triples and runs. However, some of the hands are situational, the triples and runs are not as important as what has the current situation in the game. I've covered a couple such hands so far,

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May 21, 2007Gemma's Journal #11Hello again! Well finally lots of exercises for you to try out your new scoring skills. I decided to take pictures this time because I fancied getting up from my desk for a while. To be honest I haven’t yet worked out the points myself yet so I shall be doing it at the same time as you. I’ll post up my answers later this week and then Jenn and Garthe can publicly

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May 12, 2007Jenn's Corner #12: Simple UpdateAs updates to the page have slowed down a little bit, our pace in the columns section has seemed to slow a bit too. I'm trying to stay on everyone's cases, but I suppose it is inevitable with a staff (are non-paid members still considered staff?) as small as ours that things will start to take more time. That is not to say, however, that we are all not

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May 6, 2007In Garthe's Hands #11Today I think I'll write a letter to myself. We've covered a lot of hands so far. There are only about 10 or so I haven't told you about yet, and for the most part, they will probably not figure largely in your Mahjong careers. So today in light of some recent events, I thought I'd review a couple hands that are comparatively rare but will still be relevant to your

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April 30, 2007Gemma's Journal #10A note from Jenn: This entry was supposed to be up a few days ago, but while in Vegas I had some technical difficulties. I'm back in Tokyo again, quite possibly for good. Stay tuned for more on-time updates!Ok, so I'm hoping that everyone got what happened in the last post. I'm still not entirely sure of the whole scoring system myself so any encouragement is much

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April 15, 2007In Garthe's Hands #10 Greetings from Vegas!! I'm working! And studying, compliments of Jenn, Kirk (poker buddy) and the rest of the Poker community at Bellagio and the MGM Grand. I have to say that in case any of you thought I was just out here fooling around. Unfortunately, work isn't paying so well this time around, but there are still some more work days ahead so we'll have to

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April 10, 2007Jenn's Corner #11Hello everyone! It's Jenn. I got tired of waiting for Garthe to write his column (he is currently in the US, working on some other stuff), so I will take his place and post his next column. I know you would rather read about me anyway (^.^)So the new Mahjong year has started and there is a lot to look forward to this month! First of all, JPML's first League session

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April 3, 2007Gemma's Journal #9Here it is, the first part of the series of entries on scoring that I've been putting off writing! This will probably go quite slowly for those already acquainted with the art of scoring in Japanese Mahjong. As you know, though, my entries have always been aimed for beginners by a complete beginner. I'm expecting that I'll make lots of mistakes over the next few

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March 26, 2007Jenn's Corner #10: Las VegasHere we are, back in Tokyo after our travels to our homeland. Since my last post, we have added a scoring section to the rules, and a report on JPML's first ever Women's League. Our next immediate goals (besides staying up to date on columns) is to get an interview with Michi Yuuki, JPML's first-ever Women's League Champion! Today, I want to let you all

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March 20, 2007In Garthe's Hands #9Long time no hands!! I bet you all thought with the lack of new hands columns that I must have finally run out of new hands to throw at you. Not the case! Though it should be encouraging to know that we are at least half way through them all at this point. In fact, it should be even more encouraging to note that the 16 hands I've given you so far plus the two I'm

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March 15, 2007Gemma's Journal #8A note from Jenn: This entry was supposed to be up a few days ago, but while in Vegas I had some technical difficulties. Stay tuned for more on-time updates!Hey everyone again. I've just come back from Japan so I'm going to postpone my entry on scoring another week to tell you my experiences of playing and watching Mahjong in Japan. (Convenient yet good excuse! I'm

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March 6, 2007Jenn's Corner #9A few too many days have passed since the last column and I have to apologize. I was planning on having this up on March 3rd and here it is, already early morning on the 6th. Last week was extremely busy with Gemma visiting Tokyo (that means lots of real-mahjong sessions), Garthe playing in Champion's League, add in another mini-tournament on Sunday and finally

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February 27, 2007In Garthe's Hands #8 How are you all holding up remembering all those hands? We've covered quite a few already and I wouldn't be surprised if some of you are wondering how much longer I can keep coming up with new hands to throw at you. Don't worry; after 14 of them now, we're almost halfway through! Hang in there. The hands I'll be covering the next few issues will be

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February 24, 2007Gemma's Journal #7So I've been wondering what I should write about this week. Jenn suggested that I write about scoring, and I started trying to but then I realised I was still completely lost! It's the thing I'm currently working on but there are still quite a few holes in my understanding of it all. To be honest there doesn't seem to be much logic behind it at all! Well I shall

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February 20, 2007Jenn's Corner #8: Mediators and TournamentsI arrived at SNPM'S Ryuou-sen match to cheer on one of my favorite Pro's of all time, Yuukou Itou. My plan was to rush off to JPML's Phoenix Cup Finals right after, but because of the length of the Final game (of 6), there was no time, so I just said my good-byes and headed home.I walked into Vacance (バカンス), the first Mahjong Parlor I

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February 16, 2007In Garthe's Hands #7Last week I got to tell you about my absolute favorite hand so I guess this week I have to go to the other extreme and tell you my most hated. It's strange because many pros consider it their favorite. I don't know if it's just because I want to be different or because I'm bitter or what, but this hand bites me more than it feeds me and I just can't forgive it

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We realize that some people cannot type in the same fonts as us, so this post is for you to refer to when talking about tiles. Feel free to copy/paste or use the input method best for you!First is single-letter abbreviation, 2nd is the Chinese Characters or symbols and third is the Official JPML abbreviation for the tile.If you have trouble seeing any of the characters below, change the View:

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February 12, 2007Gemma's Journal #6I got an email from Walter this week with evidence that the puzzle that we had last week can occur in real life!This was a picture from the Mahjong Montreal Winter Tournament:An amazing wait of 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 bamboo. (He quaded the 8 because it was a Drag (Lucky Tile)!)However, if he wasn't careful and had previously discarded one of these tiles then his hand

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February 8, 2007Jenn's Corner #7Did everyone see the new Glossary? If you didn't then you should definitely check it out here! It has all of the terms we have used on the page up until close to the end of January. Keep checking back for additional terms (we will be adding at least monthly with terms that we have used on the site) and also for a Japanese Romaji cross-reference! That way we can all

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February 5, 2007In Garthe's Hands #6Oh how I've waited. Today I finally get to declare my true love, my favoritest of favorite hands, a thing more beautiful than Yosemite and my girlfriend put together. (Now we'll see if she's really reading this).So far I've given you some one pointers that will let you score some small hands. You can also put them together to score bigger hands. I've also given

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February 2, 2007Gemma's Journal #5Hey again everyone!Thank you everyone for commenting on my last entry! That was fantastic! It's great to have everyone discussing and sharing their views, especially for a beginner like myself - getting advice from you all is going to be great way for me to learn. I'm going to do something similar again for this one, so if you're already more than familiar with

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January 29, 2007Jenn's Corner #6Ok, Ok, so my column is one day late. BUT! I have a great excuse! I was busy playing mahjong!! Not good enough? I'm sorry...The truth is, I took off to Okinawa for the weekend. I'm back now and went to our Monday night Mahjong group as usual, yesterday I really did play Mahjong. IN OKINAWA? you ask, why yes, I played from the comfort of my resort hotel room. Not

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January 25, 2007In Garthe's Hands #5What to cover, what to cover....there's still so much. In my last episode I jumped in to the wild and crazy world of multi-point hands with the two kinds of flushes. I was debating jumping into the total absolute lunacy of "complete hands" which give more points than anything you've ever imagined and which would have included my absolute favoritest of hands.

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January 21, 2007Gemma's Journal #4So last week was Bump. This week is Chow!Chow is very similar to Bump although instead of groups this is for runs. There is one limitation to Chow when compared to Bump is that instead of being able to Chow off anyone else on the table you can only Chow off the player to your left.Back to the table set up!Let’s imagine I was sitting in the West seat and I have

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January 18, 2007Jenn's Corner #5Mahjong of Yesterday, Mahjong of Today, Mahjong of Tomorrow?So Mahjong has come a long way from what was rumored to be an illegal card game waaaaaay back in the mountains of China. It has changed with each place it has gone to throughout the world, but the basics are still the same for everyone. No matter how you say it, the way you get tiles is by drawing (tsumo),

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January 15, 2007In Garthe's Hands #4So I took a look at my Fight Club stats the other day, and as luck would have it, 5 of the 6 hands I've covered so far are my most used hands, by quite a large margin. Of course it's not luck, but rather, all part of my greater plan. Let's take a look:Reach: 45%Value tiles: 37%Peace: 25%Simples: 23%Concealed Self-draw: 22%Only 5 hands and he's already up to

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January 12, 2007Gemma's Journal #3So quick recap on what I've learnt so far: A basic hand is four sets or runs, plus one pair. An example of a hand worth points would be: A set of dragonsA set of round windA set of seat windJenn has taught me a new trick that is going to make it so much easier to obtain these sets of wind and dragon tiles!Just a reminder of the table set up:East is

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January 7, 2007Jenn's Corner #4Ok, I've been busy trying to get the calendar updated (it's getting there!), preparing the next chapter for the "Rules" page, putting together Garthe's links (check out the "World Associations" section of the "Links" menu!!) and studying up on poker, which is what Garthe and I spent most of our time doing in Las Vegas. We also looked around for promising venues for

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January 4, 2007In Garthe's Hands #3Last week I began a theme on hands that go well together with other hands. This week I’ll continue on that theme with 2 more hands in the same vein. However, these hands are not like the hands we’ve seen so far where you want to build certain combinations of groups or use certain tiles. These are more like situations: Concealed-self-draw and Reach. They are both

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January 1, 2007Gemma's Journal #2So after learning the basic shape of a hand last week, this week we went on to learning simple hands.The simplest hand point I've been taught so far is a group of dragons. I.e. Three white/red/green dragons. So for example:These would all be worth one hand point. So far so good!Would be worth two hand points. One for each set of dragons. 1 + 1 = 2. And who said

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December 29, 2006Jenn's Corner #3Well, it is my last column for the year and it's a long one! Garthe and I are finishing up 2006 in Las Vegas! We are checking out the Poker scene and scouting possible future environments for our life's work in progress, Mahjong.I would like to use this week to talk about Mahjong Parlors ('jansou') in Japan. There are parlors in other countries as well, but it is

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December 26, 2006In Garthe's Hands #2Last week, I introduced Value Tiles and Simples, two hands that are mutually exclusive. It is totally impossible to ever have both of those hands in one hand. However, cramming as many of the different kinds of Hand Points as possible into one hand is how one gets more points out of a hand and is thus one of the secrets to winning games of Mahjong. It's

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A note from Jenn:Let me introduce Gemma.She is going to yell at me for using this picture (I am on the right, Gemma is on the left) because she likes to look precocious.I asked her to write this Journal because when I taught her how to play Reach Mahjong this year (yes, she is my very first student! and I am very protective, so be careful!), I realized that it is tough to teach someone mahjong

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December 20, 2006Jenn's Corner #2Heloooooo everyone.Did you miss me this week?I hope you enjoyed my first corner, however lengthy it may have been.How about In Garthe’s Hands? Now taking bets on how long Garthe will be able to keep up with a weekly column!So here is my second corner, only halfway away from a room!Some exciting news we got an interview with the winner of this year’s Japan

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December 17, 2006Garthe's first ColumnMahjong Mahjong Mahjong. So you think you want to dive into the exciting, seedy, seething, frothing at the mouth world of Mahjong. Well I'll tell you: watch out. Few escape unscathed. My ex-girlfriend regrets ever explaining the rules to me as the game achieved near girlfriend status for me after about 10 minutes. There is no known cure, besides a new

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Hey! Welcome my very first Corner! This Corner is all my own and I'm excited because until now all I had was a wall. Well, now I have a corner, and you know what that means. TWO WALLS!! That's right. I intend to use the meeting point of these two walls to create a corner that informs you about Reach Mahjong. Garthe and I will be updating (at least) weekly to bring you the best and most

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