While I am here I guess I can plug my statistics/game record service. THE URL IS: http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/
It allows you to loop up games played by a player and associated statistics. A few examples:
http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/ranking.pl?name=bakase (bakase)
I am just dropping by to point out how my Tenhou bot, mittens, got a kokushi. Replay is here: http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2009072922gm-0009-0000-378e13d4&tw=1&ts=2
If you are wondering, yes, it does play legitimately.
-arcturus.su guy
P.S. Holy shit osamu your blog's interface is atricous my god.
In conclusion I loathe blogs.
Edit2: It's over. I came 69th.
A friend, puyo from jpmahjong, came first though!
Edit: The MAHJONG GIRLS TALK part is here: ショタ声らしい人が大会実況++(2)
Assuming I can get up (it's about 7 hours~ away from posting this) I'll be playing in this tournament. Like the Mahjong Now Cup you just need 3+ days remaining of premium membership.
More info on tenhou's page.
Hey, this is UmaiKeiki, a very lazy mahjong player -- although I'm often in the company of some real addicts. They've scoured the internet for anything and everything related to Mahjong, and found some really outrageous ideas. Are the tiles given by Tenhou really random? Is a hanchan really the same length as two tonpuusen? Questions like these, while not exactly about "luck" and the "flow of the game", are a bit reminiscent of "occult" Mahjong, which is essentially the belief that random events in Mahjong are not really random.
Now there's nothing terribly wrong with Occult Mahjong in that it can be a convenient way to explain away some minor issues -- such as that awful losing streak you just had, or some secret technique you don't want to share with everyone. However, it sure would be fun to test some of these claims against the mathematics of probability and statistics! Today we shall do exactly this, and see how well they stand up.
