Teach Yourself - Mahjong

Name: Teach Yourself - Mahjong
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ISBN: 9780071419789

ISBN-10: 0071419780

ISBN-13: 9780071419789

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: David Pritchard

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List price: $10.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 8/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Introduction	p. ix
The mahjong set	p. 1
The basic set	p. 2
Supplementary tiles	p. 7
Accessories	p. 8
Preliminaries	p. 12
Seating	p. 13
Building the walls	p. 15
Breaking the wall	p. 16
The deal	p. 18
Playing the game	p. 21
Know your tiles	p. 22
Object of the game	p. 22
Sets	p. 23
Procedure	p. 25
Drawn game	p. 29
The goulash	p. 32
Etiquette	p. 36
Scoring and settlement	p. 38
The basic score	p. 39
Scoring a hand	p. 45
Settlement	p. 49
Scoring variations	p. 51
Special hands	p. 53
Merits of special hands	p. 55
Infringements and penalties	p. 66
Inaccuracies	p. 67
Letting off a cannon	p. 67
Infringements	p. 68
Elementary strategy	p. 71
Luck or skill?	p. 72
Sample hands	p. 74
Discards	p. 77
General hints	p. 78
Advanced strategy	p. 80
Opening phase	p. 81
Middle phase	p. 85
End phase	p. 88
Calling	p. 93
Improving your hand	p. 95
Mahjong for two, three, five or six players	p. 98
Mahjong for two players	p. 99
Mahjong for three players	p. 100
Mahjong for five players	p. 101
Mahjong for six players	p. 102
American mahjong	p. 103
Cleared-hand game	p. 104
One-double game	p. 105
The National Mah Jongg League	p. 105
The Charleston	p. 106
The American Mah-Jongg Association	p. 108
The Wright-Patterson Group	p. 109
Japanese mahjong	p. 112
Other variant forms	p. 116
The modern Chinese game	p. 118
Taiwanese mahjong	p. 120
Mahjong in South-East Asia	p. 120
Oddities	p. 121
Mahjong cards	p. 122
History	p. 126
Origins	p. 127
The great mahjong boom	p. 132
Superstitions	p. 134
Taking it further	p. 135
Further reading	p. 135
Websites	p. 138
Glossary	p. 139
Index	p. 146
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