Chapter 7: Defense
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Defense Fundamentals What do full folding and maneuvering mean? This page also touches on why defense matters so much.
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Safe Tiles Learn about completely safe tiles: tiles that can never be won on by ron.
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Suji (1) Learn the theory of suji, which helps you avoid dealing into ryanmen waits.
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Suji (2) A continuation of the previous page, with a more detailed look at suji.
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Kabe Next, learn kabe. Kabe is another way to look for safe tiles.
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Folding Procedure (1) Full folding has a clear procedure. The goal is to become able to follow that procedure in real play.
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Folding Procedure (2) The basic theory of full folding is to discard the safer tiles first. So what exactly counts as safer?
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Folding Procedure (3) Once you understand the theory, it is time to think through concrete examples.
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Maneuvering This page introduces maneuvering: a way to keep danger down while still leaving yourself a path to win.
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Defense Against Open Hands This page touches on reading tenpai, hand value, and dangerous tiles against opponents' calls.
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Tile Restriction (1) What is tile restriction, and in what kinds of situations should you do it?
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Tile Restriction (2) A continuation of the previous page, this time using concrete examples.
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How to Avoid Dealing In This page introduces ways to improve defense, in other words, to lower your deal-in rate.
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Reading Riichi (1) Learn which especially dangerous tiles can be inferred from characteristic riichi discard rows.
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Reading Riichi (2) A continuation of the previous page. This time the focus is on reading safe tiles.
Original Japanese page: http://beginners.biz/mamori/