Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Nov 30, 2004 10:11 PM UTC:If we try to get a list according to popularity, How are we measuring popularity?. If it is measured by the number of people playing a game at least eventually, some regional variants are going to appear in the list, some of them being not well known outside the lands where it is played (by example, Makruk or Korean Chess). If we apply the criteria of a game that is widely played around the world, but the number of players is relativelly small, some games may be in the list although the number of frequent players is, perhaps, no more than one thousand (I´ll be temerary to give one examples: Bughouse). If we mix both, Glinsky´s Hexagonal Chess is going to appear in the list in fourth or fifth place. In every case, the three first positions are: 1.- FIDE-Chess; 2.- Xiang Qi; and 3.- Shogi. Other games, by the way: Grand-Chess, Ultima, Omega Chess, Fischer Random Chess and Alice have good chances to be included. The question to stablish positions is which is the measure to apply, and if it is coherent with our own ideas. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Top-Ten? does not match any item.