I would go for the Nine Gates, keeping the dragons and characters.

Of one standard rule versus multiple variants. Define: Having one single standard rule for riichi tournaments would more easily bring players to convert/learn riichi. Measure: Before Chinese Official rule comes to Europe, there were no real structures to federate mahjong in Europe (AFAIK). Basing o...

\"DMAIC (or at least a basic metric) Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control, the basis of Six Sigma process improvement. I basically used it as an example and demonstration that when you present a complex thesis or defend a complex position, in this case, that a standard would get more peopl...

I would most likely try a quick Chi Coi Tsu win basically. I think there would be too many dangers if I went for too many combo options on the others. And there was no 7-crak for any Dora. You could really wait for a lot of combos with this one, but you might also Furiten yourself if it got out of c...

It doesn\'t seem possible to get numbers on how many people would be beginning riichi mahjong with different rules, without actually changing the rules. So be it. Make separate tournaments and check who plays and who gets out. Simple. \"Because you used closed tanyao, the world was destroyed! This ...

Well, nevertheless, I believe that the whole idea is to get more players in mahjong, not a different play style for the sake of pros vs beginners. So let\'s wait for the metrics of Tina to know if closing it has worked.

While closed hand is always the best way to go(in my opinion), european players seem to tend to open their hands and go for toitoi or honitsu, and I think (in my opinion) that it\'s because most of them happen to play MCR rules also which don\'t reward the closed hand as much as riichi does. Are yo...

Hi to all After reading through the 5 pages of the topic and seeing what the discussion turned on, and having drank a bit of Malibu on the rocks, I have one thing to say to all people, including the more cooled ones: calm down this is a wonderful forum, made by people who happen to have a brain, whi...

Hi Murena Perhaps you should try praicing on this one as well, if you can\'t practice while playing with real opponents: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.swf Use a flash supporting browser As to the waits, trust me, Shirluban gave you the starting ones and these you MUST be completel...

The Chinese MCR version has 80+ hands

I\'m not sure if you find that good or bad. :) btw are the Chinese MCR = International rules (the PDF I got from you guys?). I\'m confused.

well one conclusion most people take and me included is that the scoring is absurd :)

Hi Dragon People :) After playing a while in many online games and checking several manuals regarding different rules, it is obvious that the worst part of Mahjong is understanding the scoring. Nevertheless, I still understand it. I am considering the idea of creating the Portuguese Mahjong rules! :...

Oh, people, btw:

Instead of:

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.html

try

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/mahjong/mahjong_e.swf

It\'s a SWF flashgame, it\'s goes full screen that way :)

Cheers

@ Shirluban Yeah, it was an arcade, but the game doesn\'t have wacky stuff. It was just good luck. I lost on the next round, since I\'ve beaten that opponent and then I go to the next with 1000c. Ah well... easy comes easy goes @ Carl In some parlours I actually think they would kick your butt for t...

Thx Tom, will definitey do some digging. Although I shop on the net (bought my chinese HaiLin e-book through it), one can never be too careful... oh and I feel very awkward... last night I got this hand for 33000 points... :west :west :west :north :north :north :south :south :south :east :east :east...