Chapter 1. Introduction

Kajongg is a board game created after the famous oriental game of Mah Jong (from Chinese 麻將). It is played by four players. Worldwide many different rulesets are in use. Right now Kajongg supports the Classical Chinese rules as played in Germany, eventually other main rulesets will follow. It is possible to customize or add new rulesets. Please do so and send them to the program author for integration!

Kajongg can be used in two different ways: Scoring a manual game where you play as always without the help of a computer and use Kajongg for the computation of scores and for bookkeeping. Or you can use Kajongg to play against any combination of other human players or computer players.