Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

"Tom Sloper" <tomster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Then we come to the scoring. In this book, the base points are 10.
>> The scoring table is confusing, because he conflates the 2 or 4 points
>> for fishing the eyes with the 2 or 4 points for dragons and own/round
>> wind pairs, and gives the score separately for each of the possible
>> types of open or closed pairs. But if I follow it correctly, it is the
>> standard (e.g. Millington) scoring for pairs.
>
> So there we have it. It's CC, not HKOS. Too bad for Cofa.

But the book doesn't describe CC (Millington created this name many years 
later), it however did reveal that the games of mahjong did have a much 
older (and perhaps complicated) history and many aspects had been
developed 
before the games (final form) were made known to the foreigners.

Cofa Tsui
www.iMahjong.com