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<P>I just went through the list of recognized variants and did what I could to divide them into the four tiers I suggested last night. In some cases, I said 'Popular or Acclaimed,' because I wasn't sure how popular the game was. For these games, I would default to Acclaimed unless I received evidence of the game's popularity. Altogether, there are 3 Classic games, 13 Vintage games, 10 Popular games, 7 Popular or Acclaimed games, and 2 Acclaimed games, for a total of 35 games. Without getting sidetracked by other thoughts of mine, which I will save for my next message, here is a list of which tier I think each game belongs to:</P> <P><b>Classic</b>: Chess, Shogi, Xiangqi</P> <P><b>Vintage</b>: Alice Chess, Changgi: Korean Chess, Chaturanga, Chaturanga for four players, Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, Kriegspiel, Losing Chess, Marseillais Chess, Pocket Knight, Progressive Chess, Raumschach, Shatranj, and Tamerlane Chess.</P> <P><b>Popular</b>: Avalanche Chess, Bughouse, Extinction Chess, Fischer Random Chess, Gothic Chess, Grand Chess, Minishogi, Omega Chess, Smess, and Ultima.</P> <P><b>Popular or Acclaimed:</b> Chess with Different Armies, Dragonchess, Los Alamos Chess, Magnetic Chess, McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, Tridimensional Chess (Star Trek), and Wildebeest Chess.</P> <P><b>Acclaimed:</b> Crazy 38's, and Flip Chess and Flip Shogi.</P> <P>Any comments, especially with respect to resolving whether a game should be classified as Popular or Acclaimed, are welcome.</P>