Czuch Chuckers:

On a side note, I think it is mostly chess players who skew these results as there are so many variants of chess that you can make the list without knowing any other game types. This is not the same for a line game player or reversi game player as they have to be good at someother game type other than their "main" game because there just arent 11 different game variants for those games.

I saw this and some other comments about games and their "close cousins", so to speak, and I thought I would chime in on this one.

While I think there are some "portable skills" when you compare games such as Chess and Janus Chess, such as being able to play sound tactics while also have a strategical sense of how to plan, that is really where the similarity ends.

Chess and Janus Chess and Gothic Chess are really very, very different. The first game of Gothic Chess I ever played against a chess Grandmaster, Georgi Kackeshvilli (I am probably butchering the spelling of his name) I was able to win. He has a FIDE chess rating over 2700, placing him in the top 60 or 70 in the world at the time.

I would have NO CHANCE of being able to beat him in chess, even if we played something like 1000 games.

In turn, he really pounded me in the next game, so he adapted very quickly. This does not change the underlying premise: pattern recognition is pivotal in reaching the highest level of play in any game.

Despite having "done well" in Janus on here, I believe I play this game terribly. I just don't understand it. I can pull a rabbit out of my hat on occasion, but the game is "too diagonal" for my tastes, so I will never get really good at it.

I think it would be interesting to show the stats that are being mentioned as a function of the number of different games that are involved.

Who is the best when one game is being used in the sample, 2 games, 3 games, 4 games, etc.

Have a pulldown menu or something.

Some people may never play 11 different games on here, just because that is their personal preference.