----------- To answer your CO question: This problem have been treated long time ago on Mahjong News forum. The official book and is explanation file are obscure about this. If it occurs, you will have to ask the head-referee. ----------- I\'m sorry, apparently i missed that one, but then again my ...

PS: I didn\'t see the link with your "discussion about waiting states in MCR" nor how "the riichi rule is used in the MCR discussion as an argument". I don\'t know how to read your PS; you didn\'t read it because you became focused on the 3.4.2 rule or you don\'t see the relevance with this thread....

Thank you for pointing out my thinking error, because i clearly didn\'t see you can also go out on 3-dot (i find it easier to create a hand in practice (when im playing) then theoretical make some up). That makes it an bad example which should consist of a 2-sided wait (not 3) with one side not bein...

Well to tell you the truth i\'m just relaying one of the arguments (the riichi rule is used in the MCR discussion as an argument), so i haven\'t looked up the rule myself, but the relevance of the argument is that it gives the mention of a 5th tile which is relevant, because basicly the question is,...

The last couple days there\'s a discussion about waiting states in MCR, but i will \"Riichifise\" the question ;): Rule 3.4.2 in the EMA-rules state that you can\'t claim tenpai when you solely wait on a single tile which your hand contains 4 of (in other words waiting on a 5th tile). Which isn\'t 1...

Don\'t think so as i said i was the creator of that sheet and never published it, unless you or somebody else planted some spyware app to get hold of the contents of my harddrive (who would be interested in that? ;) ). Well actually i found my sheet and i also found another sheet based on the same p...

I also think the MCR rules took the American style scoring hands approach too far they could drastically simplify the rules by dividing the winning hands into special hands and other hands having three hands with 1, 2, or 3 dragon pungs in them just over complicates them and prevents begineers from...

Couple of days ago i was playing online and started with the following hand, i was not East and the Dora indicator was B1 (making B2 the dora): B1-B2-B2-B2-B7-C2-C3-C4-C6-C8-D5-D6-D7. Starting with 3 Dora\'s was lucky, but there it didn\'t stop, my first pick was the C7! Naturally i claimed Dabaru R...

GRDavies: the main question is - do you get EMA ranking if you play in that tournament? We have had for the tournament held on 27 Sep. 2008, but this years edition isn\'t on the list of EMA ranking tournaments for this year. Don\'t know if the site isn\'t up to date or EMA has made restrictions or ...

You could always try to apply. I don\'t know why the dutch tournament is allowed to be played with yakitori (although it\'s a smaller yakitori than the one I\'ve heard of). Everybody who hasn\'t have their yakitory flipped over pays 1500 points to everybody who does. What kind of penalties did you ...

If you dont believe me see their homepage: http://toernooi.dedriewijzen.com/documents/info_kinryu.html It\'s true, i can shed some light of it\'s origin. First there was one Riichi tournament per year, organised by Martin Rep & Sjef Strik. No red 5\'s were used. Later it became 2 tournaments per ye...

Barticle wrote:...or were you thinking of double yakuman as 26-han yaku?

In that case my comment stands - I´d still love to get one!

Yes, i did:
* 9 gates (pure, so 9 side wait)
* 4 concealed pungs making MJ on the eyes
* 13 sided wait thirtheen orphans

unless i\'m forgetting one or more.

Barticle: EMA rules say hands like toi-toi are two yaku. So they meet the requirement. It\'s purely a terminologic question. It\'s incorrect. If you look to the side of that, you\'ll see "ryanhan yaku" - or, translated: "2 han yaku." Toi-toi is one yaku, worth 2 han. So if it really is a 2 yaku req...

On the topic: Considering myself a beginner, I have to say that my major defense on MJ has been, if needed, to try (should my hand allow it) a triplet of yaku worth honors, and just that, not opening anything else (or the counting tile pros would read my game). This would break my riichi but at lea...

MCR rules have been around more than riichi rules in europe, and there are more MCR tournaments than there are riichi ones. I don\'t have time to cross-reference mcr and riichi rankings list in order to see how many people play the both but hopefully you get the point. Not really, don\'t know the h...