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Mahjong has what it's going for it because it allowed up to 4P so it had a lot of social aspects between autistic shy nerds too autistic for even normal vrg meetups. It's a nice fun little game you can shoot the shit with over basically, alcohol helped a lot for us too probably. After tanki died we had multiple tables so it helped that we could have multiple tables going on and still chat and chill at our own games.

I don't even know what to say about chess or shogi. They're simply just different games altogether so that fun social aspect just doesn't carry over as much very well probably. I'm just talking out of my ass since it just simply never happened and Mahjong just has that fun, chill, comfy atmosphere during na hours. A little hectic sometimes but tanoshii. 4p chess sounds intriguging though, but it doesn't have that gameplay loop mahjong has with randomness and flow.