An Advanced System for Playing Mah Jong

By Chʻung Wu and Chung Wu

This book presents new ideas of playing the mah jong game from an old timer. It adopts a new method of evaluating a hand based on the probability of occurrence. The rarer the probability, the greater... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805917101
• ISBN13: 9780805917109
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Dorrance
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For a Deeper Understanding of the Chinese Game

An Advanced System for Playing Mah Jong may not be the best book for beginners or casual players. This system is quite different from most of the normal approches used to play Mah Jong. It is not complicated, in fact in some ways it simplifies things, but it will require some adjustment to your thinking. It does help westerners play more effectively in the true Chinese forms of the game. Prof. Wu writes in beautifully clear, easy to read English (he spent much of his adult life in the US). And the fact that it was first published nearly 30 years ago does nothing to reduce its usefulness.Aside from his System, Prof. Wu gives us a really fascinating historical background to the game. I have never heard these things before. Many of the historical notions most of us in America hold about Mah Jong are completely wrong. For instance, the Red, Green and White Honors never had anything whatsoever to do with dragons! This was some kind of fanciful promotional idea introduced by the early American importers like Babcock, et. al. All in all, if you are interested in a deeper understanding of the purer Chinese forms of Ma Jong, this is a wonderful book. I certainly am glad I bought it.