Monthly Archive: August 2019

Microsoft Decloaks After Suphx AI Reaches Top Ranking

Today at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai, Microsoft Global Executive VP Shen Xianyang announced that Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has created the strongest mahjong A.I. to date. Using advanced machine...

Mahjong End Tables (Pt. 1)

Hey, tile-slingers! I’m making end tables! A year or so ago, a local player got his hands on a Chinese auto-table through a buy/sell/trade app. As I recall he got it pretty cheap, but...

What’s With The Chips?

Chip mahjong has been making rounds on Discord lately and I’m definitely interested. As a club leader and teacher of new players, I’m always happy to look at new systems of teaching. To the...

Editorial

Investing in Referees

Riichi tournaments bring together people from a broad range of backgrounds, ages, cultures, and countries. It is the achievements and failings of a global community writ small. A wash of players focuses everyone’s goals,...

The Path of Houou Blog

During the National Mahjong Day stream, Daniel “Dasuke” Moreno presented an hour of tools and exercises for practicing aspects of riichi. Throughout the segment he made several references to the blog The Hopeless Girl...

Standing on Our Own

I think what I’m about to write is in some parts going to smack of the hypocritical but I want you to hear me out. I don’t think we need to translate strategy content...

Collective Nouns: Results!

The poll for groups and sub-groups of riichi players has run for two weeks, and it is time to release them into the collective consciousness! To summarize, I think it would be a great...

Dasuke’s Riichi Warm-up’s & Practice

The National Mahjong Day live stream is still rolling. Earlier today, Daniel Moreno shared a presentation on warm-up exercises and practice tools designed to sharpen player skills. The segment is already available on YouTube...

Japanese Pros to TNT/WRC Qualifier

In May we shared on Twitter that French club Tri Nitro Tiles (TNT) would be opening their next tournament, TNT: 7th Detonation, as a WRC 2020 qualifier. Today, more exciting news has been announced!...