We continue our translation of Puyo's guide to calling tiles with the penultimate part in the series: part 7.
In this article we'll look at the advantages and disadvantages of kans, and the cases where we should and (more typically) shouldn't call kan.
You may have heard of the toitoi dash - it's the hot new meta, popularized by zeRo and his new book 0秒思考の麻雀 (Zero-byou Shikou no Maajan), and it's taking the mahjong world by storm. This article will explain what it's all about.
Continuing our translations of Puyo’s blog posts, we have part 5 of his series about calling tiles.
In the last article we discussed pon calls, in this article we'll look at situations involving chii calls.
Tenhou's HTML/Mobile client has been out for a while now, though currently there are a lot of people who haven't really tried it, and English documentation on how to navigate the client is pretty scarce.
Here's an article to explain in how to navigate and use it in a little more detail.
Continuing our translations of Puyo’s blog posts, we have part 4 of his series about calling tiles.
In this article we look at the strength of hand groups and 'pon material', and how it affects our decisions on whether to open the hand or notContinuing our translations of Puyo's blog posts, we have part 3 of his series about calling tiles.
In last last two articles we talked about calling fundamentals, now we will show some more situations to explain other aspects of judgement.
Continuing our translations of Puyo's blog posts, we have part 2 of his series about calling tiles.
In this part we look at some example hands and how to evaluate the upsides and downsides of calling a discarded tile.
We'll be translating a number of articles from Puyo's blog archive into English. The first set of articles we'll be translating focuses on when to call or not to call in riichi mahjong.
In part 1 we cover the basic pros and cons of calling tiles.