Site guide

This document guides you through the features, implemented on this site.

1. Addressing the new user

2. Registration

3. Games

4. Tournaments

5. Ratings & Statistics

1. Addressing the new user

What is Mahjongsoft?
Choose your user plan
General non-mahjong rules

What is Mahjongsoft?

Mahjongsoft is innovative mahjong site providing the opportunities:

to participate in the variety of tournaments (including duplicate ones, with hand-to-hand comparison across the tables)
to participate in marathons or in-group competitions
to participate in mahjong-solving contests
to learn more about mahjong by reading from books and other educational materials
or just to play solo being accompanied by robots

Choose your user plan

Mahjongsoft is a community of players. Most players, even being from different countries, know each other in person since they could meet earlier in live competitions abroad or play in the same city in the club.

There are two main approaches:

Become a "competitor", a member of tournament-playing part of the community. For that you should register (create login), fill in your user profile with the valid basic information: Name, Lastname, country. Your real name will not be revealed except in major monthly tournaments or "official" championships.
Keep anonymity. If you think that your identity should not be revealed, then the best way is to not register on the site all! You may play with robots, educate yourself and do other things without being logged.

General non-mahjong rules

Any non-mahjong rules, explicitly imposed or implied, serve the main goal — to save site or mahjong community from disruption:

Respect other players! That means choosing non-offensive "Displayed name" in your profile.
Allocate enough time to play the game or tournament. Never abandon started game unless you have real force-majeure! We disqualify "abandoners" by imposing the longer periods of "ban" (loosing privilege on the site) for the repeated cases.
Do not create "double entries" or fake identities. Once revealed, all the players and results will be disqualified, If you need to register your relative, please, do it under the REAL name of your relative, do not use your name for the second time.
This site is for playing mahjong! All new accounts which did not play with other players any single game in any supported by site rules will be REMOVED upon 7 DAYS after registration! This is the only measure which can distinguish real accounts from any bots.

2. Registration

Registration at mahjongsoft.com
Filling in user profile fields
Editing profile fields
Verified User

Registration at mahjongsoft.com

To register a new user on mahjongsoft.com, click the "Registration" button

Filling in user profile fields

Fill in the profile fields, pass the anti-spam check by indicating the sum of points on three tiles, check the box "Agree to terms and conditions", then click the "Register" button
Limitation:
- Login — up to 16 characters, letters and numbers
- Displayed name — up to 32 characters, unicode
- Displayed name should NOT be unethical, or offend other players with the relation to religion, racism, and similar matters content
- The user's profile fields should NOT be used as keywords of advertising

Editing profile fields

After the user logs in, by clicking on the login text, editing the profile is available
After making changes, you must agree to the terms and conditions of the site and click the "Save changes" button

Verified User

To receive a Verified User (VU) status:

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

"Verified User" status allows to create a private table (see below Private tables)
"Verified User" status allows to see the downloadable links to the parts of books and educational materials
Only "Verified User" players can participate in the tournaments

3. Games

It is possible to play mahjong on the site in several ways: local or network games, against other players or bots, in a standalone game or in the tournament.

Local games
Network games
Private tables
Hands playback from the archive

Local games

Local game is a non-network game played against the computer with no further possibility to playback it from the archive
To start local MCR game, in the "Products" site menu click on the "MCR mahjong" item

The table with the game options appears, after choosing the appropriate ones press "Start session" button

MCR game starts

To start local SBR game, in the "Products" site menu click on the "SBR mahjong" item

The table with the game options appears, after choosing the appropriate ones press "Start session" button

SBR game starts

Network games

Network game as opposed to local one, is a game played using server, it can be played against other players or bots, the results of such a game can later be reviewed
To start network game, go to "Tables Online" section on the starting page
To modify options of the new network game use drop-down menu to choose appropriate values if needed

To enter the game click on the "Join table" button

Press the "Continue" button

Pressing the "Ready to play with ... bots" button may start the game even at incomplete table (otherwise wait for the other players to enter before pressing that button)

As the result, the status of the player and the text at the button will change

Private tables

Private table allows to play within the agreed beforehand group of players
To start private table (only players with the "Verified User" status can do that), click yellow lock sign on the upper-right corner of "Tables Online" section on the starting page

The table with the game options appears, use drop-down menu to choose appropriate values if needed
The first option to limit the access to the private table is a pin code

The second option to limit the access to the private table is so-called "ticket", a player can see and use only "tickets" of the groups of which this player is a member

After selecting "ticket" from drop-down menu a new private "ticketed" table is been created

To modify options of the new private "ticketed" table use drop-down menu to choose appropriate values if needed

Only players of the specific "ticket" group can now enter such a new private "ticketed" table

Hands playback from the archive

After clicking on the link of the game number its playback from the archive starts
To replace the "frontal" player, move the mouse cursor over the corresponding player and click — the image should rotate correspondently

Two buttons control the start of playback: autoplay or step by step

Two buttons allow to go to the previous or next hand in the game session

After starting playback, one can stop, slow down or speed up it

4. Tournaments

Tournament registration
Confirmation
Tournament play
Tournament Results

Tournament registration

A list of all unfinished tournaments with a minimum description of their parameters is at the bottom of the "Tables Online" section
To enter the page of the selected tournament, click the "Join tournament" button

To enter the main list of tournament participants, check the box "Agree to terms and conditions" and click on the button "Join tournament"
To enter the list of substitute players, check the box "Agree to terms and conditions" and click the button "Join list of substitute players"

As a result, your nickname will be added to the main list of tournament participants or the list of substitute players
To exit the tournament, click the "Exit" button

Confirmation

There are two timers at the very end of the tournament page:

the first timer shows the time until the confirmation of registration in the tournament
the second timer shows time before start

Participation in a tournament without confirmation is IMPOSSIBLE!
Confirmation procedure starts at the specified time before the start of the tournament

A beep sounds and a new "Confirm" button appears

After clicking the "Confirm" button, the icon next to the player's nickname changes
IMPORTANT: after the end of the confirmation phase, all non-confirmed players will be REMOVED from the tournament
Participation in the tournament is still possible with complete tables
Check the box "Agree to terms and conditions" and click on the button "Join tournament"

Tournament play

When the tournament starts, a beep sounds and a new "Join table" button appears, after clicking on which a new window with the current deal will open
During the course of the entire tournament, all relevant information about it is presented on the tournament page in the form of several sections: name, description, list of players, status of the current deal play, deals results and the summary table

For the convenience of organizing screen space, some sections can be "hidden" by clicking on the corresponding square with a triangle looking "up", or, conversely, can be "shown" by clicking on the corresponding square with a triangle looking "down"

The status of the current deal play is shown as tables "playing" or "finished"

Tournament Results

During the course of the tournament, the actual deals results and the summary table can be found in the corresponding sections of the tournament page
After the end of the tournament, its results can be found in the statistics archive

In the "Statistics" site menu, click on the "List of tournaments" item — a table of past tournaments with links appears
Click on the blue link of the tournament number – two sections appear
The upper section is a summary table:

the results of all players are sorted by the sum of IMPs, if this indicator is equal, the additional criteria are applied, if it is still impossible to separate all the places in a such group, they are shown through "-"'s
for each unplayed (from beginning to end) deal, the player is penalized by 2 IMPs, regardless of the real result of this deal played by the substitute player or bot
the horizontal details of the results can be changed by selecting the appropriate level by clicking on the structure elements (to the left of the "Session" label)

The lower section represents the results and links of each deal played in the tournament, by default each deal is shown as one line

After clicking on a square with a triangle the results of each table will be shown in a tabular form, the table numbers are the links to the deal replay in a separate window

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5. Ratings & Statistics

Tournament Ranking

MCR fans statistics

Tournament Ranking

In the "Statistics" site menu, click on the "Tournament rating" item – a table of players ratings for the last available date appears
There are several columns in the table: player's rank, player's nickname, rating as of the last date, previous rating value, change, number of tournaments played, number of podium places

After clicking on the player's nickname a table appears with the values of the tournament rating of this player for several dates

The main indicator of a player's success in a tournament is the basic ranking which is a number from 0 to 1000 points, it is calculated using the formula: BR = 1000 * (Number_of_players - Player's_place)/(Number_of_players - 1)
A player's rating is the sum of two components: 50%*(Weighted average of the basic ranking for all tournaments)+50%*(Weighted average of the basic ranking for the best 10 tournaments)
The best tournaments are determined purely by the basic ranking, all those missing up to the number of 10 tournaments are considered to have BR = 0

MCR fans statistics

In the "Statistics" site menu, click on the "MCR fans" item — two sections will appear with up-to-date data
Only winning MCR hands played with max. 1 bot (including games played in duplicate tournaments) are taken into account for calculating statistics

The upper section is a table of MCR fans statistics: 12 lines correspond to the fans' values, the numbers in the cells correspond to the fan numbers and are clickable for all shown-up fans
When you point the mouse cursor over the number in the cell, a "floating" name of the corresponding fan appears
Note: For a detailed description of MCR fans refer to the page in Help menu

After clicking on the fan number a table of the latest hands in which the specified fan was collected appears, as well as data on the frequency of fan

The lower section is a table of the top 10 hands by value (excluding flower points)
Hand numbers are clickable — clicking on the blue link starts its playback from the archive

Updated: 08.01.2024