Even if it's just flattery, I appreciate it. Thank you very much! Japan has some excellent videos, and I hope to continue delivering their best aspects. Best of luck to the English-speaking mahjong community!
Awesome videos! I found your channel yesterday and I am already trying to incorporate your tips on safety tiles, push and fold judgement, and the four iishanten variants. I was just wondering what the japanese name is for sticky shape, 2 floating 1 away and skipping shape? I really like it when you also mention the japanese names of everything in the videos so please continue with that :)
Thank you for your watching! Sticky shape = 2 floating 1 away = kuttsuki （くっつき）. Skipping shape = ichimaitobi（一枚飛び）, though, even within the Japanese language, the terminology is not well established. I will try to write both English and Japanese name. If possible, it would be helpful if you could explain the reason for needing Japanese names. Is it to use them for searches or something similar? Thank you for your feedback!
Recently started playing and your videos really helped me in learning strategy instead of playing only based on intuition. Instantly subbed and looking forward to your next videos 😊
Amazing explanation, I have always been focused on tempai wait (like most people I would assume), that abstract at the beginning of your video is perfect to practice and improve tile efficiency, thank you
The opening problem: it is interesting that the efficiency calculator disagrees, preferring to discard 6s over 4m. The rationale here is that the tile acceptance remains very similar in iishanten, but (34 vs 35), but actually completing the hand is slightly faster with the former. Comparing the options: 1. The "average" cases are all exactly the same, leading to a tenpai waiting on 6 tiles. 2. The best case is better for keeping 4m: keeping 4m allows to draw 3m, discard 6p and be waiting on 11 tiles (245m). 3. The worst case is also better for keeping 4m: drawing another 4m, for example, leads to a shanpon wait on 4 tiles, while discarding 4m and drawing 3p leads to waiting on 3m or the last 6p (only 3 tiles). On the other hand, 3p, one of the more likely tiles to be drawn here, leads to a far better acceptance at tenpai after discarding 4m (8 vs 3). Of course, other players' discards will factor in heavily here, but I thought it is worth mentioning this here. What do you think?
Thank you for your excellent observation! I agree with the point you raised. From a practical perspective, there is not a huge difference in expected value whether discarding the 6s or the 4m, and it is appropriate to judge according to the situation. As you mentioned, in order to ensure strictness, I should have pointed out these things in the video as well. However, I still strongly recommend choosing to discard the 4m. It is practical, with fewer mistakes, and will ultimately lead to an improvement in performance. In mahjong, it is more important to be able to consistently score 90 points than to aim for 100 points unrealistically. On this channel, I would like to focus on explanations that help viewers become practically stronger and easier to understand in the videos, and discuss more complex topics in the comments section like here. Thank you again for your excellent question!👍
Bro I love your videos, I almost gave up playing Mahjong because I didn't understand how to get better, but ur 5 block theory and novice > expert videos were so helpful in understanding what I was doing wrong. Keep up the good work man, looking forward to more of ur videos.
Thank you! I'm truly honored that I could convey the joy of Mahjong to you. It might take a bit of time for new video updates, but I'll continue creating helpful content in the future!
Thank you for making these videos as they are very helpful for new players like me! Also at 6:23 thank you for explaing why 3p is a bad choice because it was my 2nd discard choice.
Thank you for your feedback! Feedback like this is extremely helpful in understanding what kind of explanations would deepen your understanding. I will continue to strive to create videos that can be of assistance to you!
Really good explanation in general on your channel. I like all the beginner friendly tutorials ! (maybe if one day you are able to replace the robotic voice with your real voice it would be even more appreciable to watch but I can understand this choice as well, either way keep it going !)
Thank you very much! I apologize the robot voice is sometimes unnatural for English native speakers. On the other hand, due to my Japanese accent, I rely on the robot voice. I will continue to strive for clear explanations as much as possible, so thank you for your continued support!
Very informative video. All your videos are wonderfull. I got a question. I see why the no extra tile shape is better compare to the extra tile shape. However, it is really a different IIshanten and if so, why ? Because an other exemple is a Sticky IIshanten with one or both floating tile form Nobetan with already existing group. This will also increase the waiting pattern to go tenpai, as the no extra tile vs extra tile situation, but the Nobetan containing Sticky IIshanten is not considered as a different type of IIshanten. Correct ? So is there a reason why in the first case, we give an other name to the IIshanten because the ''floating'' tile is adjacent to one groupe and not in the second case ? That is working on me mind since a while an if you can share what you think about this it would be very appreciate.
Thank you for your comment! You're absolutely right, strategies in mahjong are very intricate. I will continue to share and communicate through videos in the future!
The only thing I don't agree with is Tenhou 6 Dan = Saint 1 lol. Serious comment though, I hope after any kind of practice, the gap can still be a bit longer. It reveals the answer a bit too quick that I can't get to pause.
Oh, really? While I'm not certain about the exact details, the following conversions are widely mentioned in Japan: Tenhou 5 = Master 3 Tenhou 6 = Saint 1 Tenhou 7 = Saint 2 In the next video, I will take slightly longer pauses in the next video. Thank you for your feedback!
Hmm, interesting, I would say Tenhou 6 is definitely higher than Saint 1. Tenhou 6~7 is a very big gap, and I don't see Saint 1~2 is that much a gap. Unless you're only playing in Throne, I personally would say Tenhou 6 should be Saint 2~3 or even stable Saint 3, but, it's interesting to see the different thought on this. @@MahjongSamurai
