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The World Riichi Championship (WRC) is a worldwide competition of Japanese Mahjong (also known as riichi) held every 3 years since 2014. The competition is nominally open to people of all ages, men and women alike.
The European Mahjong Association (EMA) was established at the general assembly during the first European Championship in the Netherlands in June 2005. [2] After this competition, EMA started holding European championships under international rules every 2 years, and started sanctioning Mahjong competitions which was held under international and Japanese rules.
Japanese mahjong is usually played with 136 tiles. [7] The tiles are mixed and then arranged into four walls that are each two stacked tiles high and 17 tiles wide. 26 of the stacks are used to build the players' starting hands, 7 stacks are used to form a dead wall, and the remaining 35 stacks form the playing wall.
On October 23, 2002, the first world championship was held in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan over three days, but this event was not counted as the first world championship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After the establishment of World Mahjong Organization (WMO) in 2006, the official first world championship was held in Chengdu, Sichuan , China on November 1 ...
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A hand containing a sequence in each of the three suits. For example, the above hand has 2-3-4 in all three suits. Full Straight: ikkitsuukan – 一気通貫, or ittsuu – 一通 2 (1 if open) Open or Closed A hand containing three single-suited sequences of 1-2-3, 4-5-6, and 7-8-9 (thus creating a full run from 1 to 9). Double Identical ...
Masato Chiba, from Japan, won the first championship. On June 21, 2007, the 2nd European championship was held in Copenhagen, Denmark for 3 days. Martin Wedel Jacobsen from Denmark won the championship. [1] Team event was begun since this championship. In 2008, EMA began another European Mahjong Championship under Japanese Riichi rule.
1st European Riichi Championship 2008: Hanover, Germany: July 10–11, 2010 2nd European Riichi Championship 2010: Hanover, Germany: Jazzclub Hannover September 18–22, 2013 3rd European Riichi Championship 2013: Bad Vöslau, Austria: Weingut Schlossberg October 7–9, 2016 4th European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2016: Farnham, United Kingdom