Chess may be "intellectual" and mahjong may be "luck based trash only fit for smoke filled backrooms frequented by yakuza" but I've never seen a rinshan kaihou 12000 point tsumo in chess
Chess just lacks the drama and excitement of mahjong.
Managing to fork a queen and a king is nothing to the feeling of breaking a massive hand in tempai because you just picked up a white dragon and sense that it's cursed, only to see the guy next to you deal into a dealer baiman with that same tile on the very next discard.
my first yakuman ever (it was a suu an kou, and it was in real life) I had to leave the room for about 20 minutes. I don't smoke but I was offered a cigarette and nearly took it. High point of my life honestly.
Chess may be "intellectual" and mahjong may be "luck based trash only fit for smoke filled backrooms frequented by yakuza" but I've never seen a rinshan kaihou 12000 point tsumo in chess
Chess just lacks the drama and excitement of mahjong.
Managing to fork a queen and a king is nothing to the feeling of breaking a massive hand in tempai because you just picked up a white dragon and sense that it's cursed, only to see the guy next to you deal into a dealer baiman with that same tile on the very next discard.
my first yakuman ever (it was a suu an kou, and it was in real life) I had to leave the room for about 20 minutes. I don't smoke but I was offered a cigarette and nearly took it. High point of my life honestly.