• Site menu has been changed.

• New menu item "Tournaments" contains submenus: "Tournament policy", "Rules", "OEDMC 2020".

The book «Sichuan Mahjong? It's that simple!», English version, is available for downloading at SBR Handbook to the users with the "Verified User" (VU) status.

The MahjongSoft portal and Meridian Cultural Center (Moscow) announce MCR Tournament.

Meridian Cultural Center MCR Tournament #4

Date: Saturday 26.12.2020

Time: start 10am CET -– end 5pm30 CET

Schedule:

10:00 - Session 1
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈11:20 - Session 2
maximum 16 deals, lunch break 60 minutes

≈13:30 - Session 3
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈14:50 - Session 4
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈16:10 - Session 5
maximum 16 deals

≈17:30 - Tournament end and results

Responsible person: Vitaly Novikov, mob. / WhatsApp +7(925)771-45-92, vitaly.novikov@mail.ru

• Players with the "Verified user" status can create private tables with customizable parameters:

• Italian version of Sichuan-style Rules (SBR) has been added. Acknowledgments to Thibaut Arnold for the help in translating this page.

The Mahjongsoft and Associazione Italiana Mah Jong invite you to MCR tournament "AIMJ Christmas 2020 Open Tournament" organized by the Milan club, which will be held on Sunday 20.12.2020 from 10am CET to 6pm CET.

AIMJ Christmas 2020 Open Tournament

Date: Sunday 20.12.2020

Time: start 10am CET – end 6pm CET

Schedule:

9.40 confirmation

10.00 session 1

11.15 break

11.25 session 2

12.40 lunch

13.40 session 3

14.55 break

15.05 session 4

16.20 break

16.30 session 5

17.45 end and results

Started game can be finished, break starts only when all tables have finished their session (max 16 deals).

Contact: Carmen Savino +39 338 694 0070 or carmen.savino@tiscali.it

• French version of Sichuan-style Rules (SBR) has been added. Acknowledgments to Thibaut Arnold for the help in translating this page!

The MahjongSoft portal and Meridian Cultural Center (Moscow) announce MCR Tournament.

Meridian Cultural Center MCR Tournament #3

Date: Saturday 12.12.2020

Time: start 9am CET -– end 4pm CET

Schedule:

9:00 - Session 1
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈10:15 - Session 2
maximum 16 deals, lunch break 60 minutes

≈12:20 - Session 3
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈13:35 - Session 4
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈14:50 - Session 5
maximum 16 deals

≈16:00 - Tournament end and results

Responsible person: Vitaly Novikov, mob. / WhatsApp +7(925)771-45-92, vitaly.novikov@mail.ru

• Sichuan mahjong tournaments (SBR) has been introduced in the test mode.

The Mahjongsoft Mahjong Portal and the French mahjong club "Vent d'Est" invite you to the online MCR tournament "Tournoi Don des Dragons - Vent d'Est", which will be held on Sunday 06.12.2020 from 10h to 18h10 (UTC+1).

Tournoi Don des Dragons - Vent d'Est

Date: Sunday 06.12.2020

Time: 10h -- 18h10 (UTC+1)

Schedule:

9.40 confirmation

10.00 session 1

11.10 break

11.30 session 2

12.40 lunch

14.00 session 3

15.10 break

15.30 session 4

16.40 break

17.00 session 5

18.10 end and results

The Mahjongsoft Mahjong Portal and the Belgian Mahjong Association invite you to the first Online Open Belgian Tournament MCR, which will be held on Saturday 05.12.2020 from 10am CET (Brussels) to 6pm CET. This ‘open for all’ tournament will consist of 5 sessions of each 75min with breaks of 10min and a longer lunch break after session 2. Belgian participants are kindly requested to pre-register by filling in this form, to be able to compete for the title of Belgian online MCR champion 2020.

Online Open Belgian Tournament MCR #1

Date: Saturday 05.12.2020

Time: start 10am CET – end 6pm CET

Schedule:

9.40 confirmation

10.00 session 1

11.15 break

11.25 session 2

12.40 lunch

13.30 session 3

14.45 break

14.55 session 4

16.10 break

16.20 session 5

17.35 end and results

Started game can be finished, break starts only when all tables have finished their session (max 16 deals).

Contact: Marieke Verheyden +32485174130 or mariekemahjong@outlook.be

• please report on bug on the MahjongSoft website in the form
• to improve the tournaments schedule on the site, we ask you to express your opinion in the survey

The MahjongSoft Mahjong Portal and Meridian Cultural Center announce the Meridian Cultural Center MCR Tournament #2, which will be held on 28.11.2020 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Moscow time.

Tournament Schedule

Saturday, November 28 at 11:00 (Moscow), start of the tournament, 5 sessions according to the following schedule.

11:00 - Session 1
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈12:15 - Session 2
maximum 16 deals, lunch break 60 minutes

≈14:20 - Session 3
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈15:35 - Session 4
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈16:50 - Session 5
maximum 16 deals

≈18:00 - Tournament end and results

Responsible person: Vitaly Novikov, mob. / WhatsApp +7(925)771-45-92, vitaly.novikov@mail.ru

• "Ready to play" button disappearing
• recalculated "MCR fans statistics" (removed hands of two test tournaments played by bots)

• Menu Books has been added. International translators of mahjong educational materials are invited. Please, contact Vitaly Novikov at vitaly.novikov@mail.ru.

• MCR tournament rating has been introduced. To switch between duplicate and non-duplicate check or uncheck "Duplicate" flag.

• MCR tournaments will be introduced run under non-repetitive similar-performance seating system.

• ITALIAN language menu has been added. Acknowledgments to Carmen Savino (Mrs Baskerville).

• JAPANESE language menu has been added. Acknowledgments to Ryuichi Ohori 大堀龍一!

The user policy at MahjongSoft site

In order to offer to real players best services MahjongSoft site is introducing the policy towards the account creation and their usage. Those are several "common sense" "Yes" / "No" rules ensuring flawless site functioning.

• More than ONE account per one person is prohibited to create.
• Loginname, displayed name should NOT offend other players as related to religion, rasism, and similar matters content, be unethical, etc.
• The user's profile fields should NOT be used as an advertising, keywords, etc.

Comment: For instance, it is hard to believe that someone's name is "Investment", "Payment", etc.

To be on the safe side the best is to receive a Verified User (VU) status, this will happen when the user completes the profile with "complete" information:

• Fill in fields "Name", "Last name" preferably in ENGLISH (since using the native languages like Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillics etc. is hard to read).
• Choose "Country".
• Fill in field "City" - no restrictions.
• Validate the email address by clicking the link indicated in the letter from MahjongSoft.com server (which will be sent to the specified email address with a request to confirm it).

Comment: For Verified User (VU) status all fields must be relevant, no abbreviations like "W", "ZZZ", etc.

Comment: Some official tournaments may have the restriction for only VU status bearers to participate in, please, beware!

Unused accounts

We allow 1 month since registration at MahjongSoft site for the user to test our game and tournaments.

All accounts being created more that 1 months ago and never played a single MCR, SBR game or tournament will be removed!

Comment: The only exception for this rule is VU status bearers who played in EMA or Asian offline tournament ("RSID" field is not empty, this field is filled in by admin based on external statistics).

The MahjongSoft Mahjong Portal and Meridian Cultural Center announce the Meridian Cultural Center MCR Tournament #1, which will be held on 07.11.2020 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Moscow time.

Tournament Schedule

Saturday, November 7 at 11:00 (Moscow), start of the tournament, 4 sessions according to the following schedule.

11:00 - Session 1
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈12:25 - Session 2
maximum 16 deals, lunch break 60 minutes

≈14:40 - Session 3
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈16:05 - Session 4
maximum 16 deals

≈17:30 - Tournament end and results

Responsible person: Vitaly Novikov, mob. / WhatsApp +7(925)771-45-92, vitaly.novikov@mail.ru

The MahjongSoft Mahjong Portal announces the Russian National Unity Day MCR Tournament, which will be held on 04.11.2020 from 12:00 to 19:00 Moscow time.

Tournament Schedule

Wednesday, November 4 at 12:00 (Moscow), start of the tournament, 4 sessions according to the following schedule.

12:00 - Session 1
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈13:25 - Session 2
maximum 16 deals, lunch break 60 minutes

≈15:40 - Session 3
maximum 16 deals, 10 min break

≈17:05 - Session 4
maximum 16 deals

≈18:30 - Tournament end and results

Responsible person: Vitaly Novikov, mob. / WhatsApp +7(925)771-45-92, vitaly.novikov@mail.ru

• fixed bug with a "Space bar" for discarding last taken tile,
• other minor improvements and fixes.

• new chapter in Help menu - Site guide

• OEDMC 2020 menu has been added.

French Mahjong Club Mahjong Club du Rhône in partnership with the Mahjong International League (MIL) announces the 1st Online European MCR Duplicate Championship, which will be held on October 31 on the Russian mahjong portal MahjongSoft. 140 players (mainly from Europe) are expected to participate in the Championship, each of whom will play 80 duplicate hands. The main source of information about the 1st Online European MCR Duplicate Championship is the official site.

• new feature -- chatbox on the tournament page;
• new feature -- chatbox on the game page.

• launch of conventional (non-duplicate) MCR tournaments.

• tournament organizer can replace players from the list of substitute players,
• fixed some bugs.

• new chapter in Help menu - MCR rules

• new chapter in Help menu - SBR rules,
• new chapter in Help menu - Contacts.

• To determine the places of players in individual duplicate tournaments in case of ties (having an equal sum of IMP), the additional criteria are applied: the sum of IMP and the sum of game points calculated only for those deals in which all tied players played.

• FRENCH language menu has been added.
• "Help" menu has been added.
• Duplicate rules description has been added (see inside "Help" menu).

• When a table is complete, sending a beep to inform the players,
• In tournaments timer changed to 9 seconds,
• Sit&Go tournaments now started with 5 minutes delay after filling,
• fixed bug with counting "Triple pung",
• other minor improvements.

• "False Hu" hand is shown in result window,
• duplicate rules 4-5 implemented (last tile in a game is the only tile when there is now more tiles in the wall on the right side player's wall, only Madhjong (Hu) declaration is allowed on the last tile in a game),
• reduced delay during multiple declarations,
• delay for bots "thinking" time when playing with bots,
• other minor improvements.

• change password via email,
• recover a forgotten password,
• validate email.

• Current schedule: Mon-Fri 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sat 3 p.m., Sun 6 p.m., Moscow time zone.
• 6 hours before the start, the tournament appears in the list of tables.
• 3 hours before the start, pre-registration opens.
• 10 minutes before the start, a 5-minutes time window opens to confirm registration. Players previously signed up for the tournament must press the confirmation button.
• 5 minutes before the start, all players who do not confirm participation are REMOVED from the registration list. Before the start, the usual registration for vacant seats continues.
• If there are empty seats at the time of launch, registration is extended for 5 minutes (it happens twice after first time extention).
• If all places are full, the tournament starts and the game is played as usual.
• After 10 deals in the tournament, there is a 5-minutes break.

• Move timer in tournaments is 10 seconds.
• East on the first move has double timer, i.e. 20 seconds.
• One can request additional time by pressing the "Time +" button when the time remains less than half (the numbers on the button turn red). In total, one can press the button this way up to 3 times per move, so the maximum time for one move is 40 seconds (please, do not abuse it).
• With three timeouts in a row, the player will be disconnected, if this happened due to a loss of connection one can log into the game again and continue playing as usual.
• The place in the tournament registration is "held" until the start, regardless of the connection. But, of course, one can exit prior the start or the tournament by the button.
• The list of tournaments shows the starting time (for a while there is no schedule, available are only "Manual" tournaments that are started by admins manually and "Sit & Go" tournaments that start automatically when all the places are filled).

• tile discard animation is redone
• when the discarded tile was taken from the hand, it is shown in the middle; when the discarded tile is a freshly taken tile from the wall, it is shown as shifted to the right from the middle
• a bug with showing hands at the end of the game (winning tile) is fixed

• timer bar has been added, showing the current player.
• on pressing SPACE button the last tile from the wall will be discarded (if it is not already inside the hand).
• on pressing SPACE button with other player's discard, PASS will be declared.

• Login - character field with a maximum of 16 characters (using Latin letters, digits, symbols "-" or "_")
• E-mail
• Name - preferably in the native language
• Last name - preferably in the native language
• Country
• City

• MCR: discard of flower tiles allowed
• MCR: fixed error while declaring winning hand with knitted straight - thanks to player cantaloop for message!
• MCR Replay: fixed error CHOW positioning

• on the tables
• in the list of players online
• while chatting

• MCR, SBR: time between deals is 20 seconds.
• MCR: Declaring "Hu" with hand points less then required causes false mahjong
• In MCR Mahjong application it's also possible to allow false mahjong declaration for training purpose

• New tile from the wall is shown separately
• By clicking empty space this tile is added to the hand with sorting
• Sounds and pop-ups for the declarations
• Player's connection state is shown: disconnected and timeout
• Hot keys for the declarations