Dr. Tai-Up Kim

Tai-Up Kim
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You have never met Mr. Tai-Up Kim from South-Korea, the indefatigable president of the World Mahjong Federation and, since 1998, CEO and president of Tanksoft, Inc., a software company which, amongst others, developed an 'undefeatable' online mahjong game called Mahking.In 1999, he founded the World Mahjong Players Association.Recently, this organisation was upgraded to the World Mahjong Federation (WMF).
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Tai-Up Kim does believe in mahjong very much, but he does not believe in the Mahjong Competition Rules, even though these rules will be applied on the first World Mahjong Championship (November 2007 in China) and on the European championship (next month in Denmark).He considers them 'a freak' , 'even though the beginners (most of European mahjong players) may accept it for granted, they will soon recognize in the same when their level of understanding mahjong enhances.' Tai-Up Kim is looking for partners in organizing mahjong tournaments in Europe and the United States.

Tai-Up Kim

For the time being, the World Mahjong Federation is just a private dream of its president, Mr. Tai-Up Kim, designer of its 'unified rules' and CEO of the Korean software company Tanksoft.But he is working hard to make it true.He is looking for partners in Europe and the United States to organize mahjong tournaments there. 'If we hold a few tournaments in WMFR (World Mahjong Federation Rule), I think the WMFR can easily be an international standard', he claims, and: 'WMF will succeed eventually.'

Tai-Up Kim is not easily discouraged, even though a large tournament he had planned in the Korean resort Seogwipo in 2003, with USD 10,000 as prize money, never took place because of a lack of interest.
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"Using the World Mahjong software", says Mr. Tai-Up Kim, "two humans can play with two cyber players (Artifial Intelligence players), so they can compete against each other, just like in the game of Go."That's why, in the Mahjong World Federation, there is an important role for the computer.Tai-Up Kim was inspired by IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, which managed to defeat world chess champion Gary Kasparov.
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Question for Mr. Tai-Up Kim: When you play against the computer, how can you be sure the tiles in the wall are not manipulated?How can you be sure that the AI does not take advantage of knowing what tiles the humans have in their hands?Answer of Tai-Up Kim: Good question.

with President and CEO, Dr Tai-Up Kim, involved in the game for over 30 years.
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TankSoft President, Dr Kim, commented: "We are very excited to be working with the industry leader in gaming software for Asia, if not the world.

Its management team has unparalleled experience with President and CEO, Dr Tai-Up Kim, involved in the game for over 30 years.
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TankSoft President, Dr Kim, commented: "We are very excited to be working with the industry leader in gaming software for Asia, if not the world.

Dr. Tai-Up Kim, the founder of the TankSoft, Inc. and the key developer of the MahKing, studied the majority of all the existing algorithms and developed a couple of new algorithms for his thesis at MIT.

with President and CEO, Dr Tai-Up Kim, involved in the game for over 30 years.
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TankSoft President, Dr Kim, commented: "We are very excited to be working with the industry leader in gaming software for Asia, if not the world.