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Has everybody idea of what are we doing?. This is a class of art. Measures are very difficult to stablish, because art is not equally appretiated by people, but we can get some statistical measures of acceptability, as in painting, writing or music composition. That´s all. Which games are good, and which are bad?. It depends on who is answering the question. If we want be faithful in the statistical appretiation of people, we can mantain a list of 'top-50', selected by democratic votation, because I have not other idea, this art is not very commercial (yet, and perhaps for an undetermined amount of time), so the number of units selled or the price reached in the market is not a reasonable indicative. The top-50 list may vary month to month, as it happens with many other art manifestations. We need critics too, but I must admit that this art needs a lot of time to be evaluated by critics. There are hundreds of games which have not been played by anybody, including the inventor. Many of them are not very playable, many of them are horrible games to the majority, but, as in other types of art, there are always persons which can like a particular game or a family of them, and this is the main reason of this Pages, this is a gallery, a music studio with a big compilation of singles , a book store or editorial, or what you can imagine as a room for inventors and a catalog about the art of chess games design. What is the acceptation of these games?. We are not a lot of people, but we can measure it statistically, and it should be a good idea mantain a TOP-50 list.