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Ryuoui: Why You Should Give It a Try
10-02-2025 Why I Wrote This In Japan, title matches mean everything in the Riichi Mahjong community, yet there are very few English...

Yicheng Z.
Oct 2, 20253 min read


East Coast Pro Study session #1
09- 01-2025 Before anything It’s been a while since my last post—research work has been keeping me busy! Things have been moving smoothly...

Yicheng Z.
Sep 1, 20258 min read


Chiitoi quick thoughts
08/06/2025 Didn't realize that it has been five days since my last post update. Writing something every day has been getting harder when...

Yicheng Z.
Aug 5, 20251 min read


Random thinking
Good evening everyone. Thanks to you if you actually clicked in and read this post. Because it's a little late, and I don't have the...

Yicheng Z.
Aug 1, 20251 min read


ARML Summer 2025 Session 1 Review Session1-Game1 (4)
07-30-2025 Let's change the mode of this kind of post, previously I have been providing the answer of NAGA right away, but this time...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 31, 20252 min read


Back from RNO
Let's start with numbers: 133 ( My rank out of 202 participants) More numbers: -54.1 - The final score I got. 35 - The table number that...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 30, 20252 min read


ARML Summer 2025 Session 1 Review Session1-Game1 (3)
07-23-2025 Continuing the previous review ... Paifu: http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2025070709gm-000b-18940-65cc0eab&tw=3 Standing points:...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 23, 20251 min read


ARML Summer 2025 Session 1 Review Session1-Game1 (2)
07-22-2025 Continuing the previous review ... Paifu: http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2025070709gm-000b-18940-65cc0eab&tw=3 Standing points:...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 22, 20252 min read


ARML Summer 2025 Session 1 Review Session1-Game1 (1)
07-21-2025 After a weekend's distillation (seriously), I come sit down at the table and trying to make this review happen. I think this...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 21, 20253 min read


Second Friday Recap
07-18-2025 This is the second Friday Recap, which means I have been writing for at least two weeks, Hooray! For the past one week I have...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 18, 20251 min read


Wednesday and Thursday
07-18-2025 I have been very busy over the last two days. I need to finish the first draft of my survey paper and that thing is...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 17, 20251 min read


Research Tuesday
07-15-2025 As I planned, Tuesday is about the research. In this kind of post, I would like to talk about the current study I'm doing....

Yicheng Z.
Jul 16, 20252 min read


Monday WWYD
07/14/2025 Following the previous post Thought on going forward , today is the first Monday that we are going to talk about a scenario in...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 15, 20253 min read


Friday Recap - 1
07-12-2025 Take the time to recap/take Friday night to write something less logical and more stream of consciousness. Here is our seventh...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 12, 20252 min read


Mind the discard after call
07-10-2025 Today's post will be about something basic, but since this post is for general audience, it makes sense to make some...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 10, 20253 min read


Thought on going forward
07-09-2025 What is your plan for being a pro? Hi all, This post brings us back to the mahjong discussion. I remember being asked this...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 9, 20252 min read


No post for today
2025-07-09 I actually wrote something about research, but I think it's not postable. In order not to skip a day, I just put this here....

Yicheng Z.
Jul 9, 20251 min read


From a natural procrastinator
Oh hey, I think I should put the date here. 2025-7-7. I will do it. But when? As you might know, I based in Rochester, NY. The time zone...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 8, 20254 min read


Leaving the site Better than yesterday
Just like the title... Hi there, it's kinda late in here. I still chose to write something because I would like to make it a habit. This...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 6, 20251 min read


First post as a Saikouisen Pro
Testing Testing, can you here me? F inally. I got authorized to refer to myself as a pro mahjong player since I past the pro exam and...

Yicheng Z.
Jul 5, 20251 min read
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