Introduction
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After mahjong was invented in China in the mid-1800's – see the slightly more elaborate history of the game in the Chinese Classical section on this web site – it evolved differently in different parts of China, and then yet again into even more forms when spreading further into other countries in Asia and then the West during the 1900's.
In this way, about two dozen recognized “
main” variants of the game came to exist: in the regions of mainland China, and in Japan, the USA, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and so on. The result was that unlike in bridge, backgammon or FIDE-style chess, or more recently in poker, people from different parts of the world or even from different parts of China could not easily play against each other but were forced to adapt to the local rules.