Finding fellow Mahjong players can sometimes be frustrating. If you’re looking for a player or group try Stephan Hilchenbach’s excellent website: Mahjong contacts.
Here you can search for and find players of the classical Chinese board game of Mahjong – worldwide.
If you don’t find players near your location, please place an ad. Regularly playing groups are invited to publish their meeting points and times.
Perhaps 2009 is the year that you find your group.
If the video above does not load you can watch it on YouTube: German Mahjong Open 2008.
This is old news, from a report on the BBC News Health website in August 2007 entitled: Mahjong game ‘can cause epilepsy’:
A study by doctors in Hong Kong has concluded that epilepsy can be induced by the Chinese tile game of mahjong.
The findings, published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, are based on 23 cases of people who suffered mahjong-induced seizures.
The report’s four authors, from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital, said the best prevention – and cure – was to avoid playing mahjong.
Easier said than done avoiding playing mahjong!
Rosewood Furniture currently have a couple of Redwood Mahjong tables for sale in the UK retailing at £172 + VAT (approx. £203).
Options are:
There’s a lot of exciting discussion at the moment about how the British Mah Jong Association can develop.
What would you like to see from a British Mah Jong Association?
