Twilight Struggle, a two player game, was the number 1 game on BGG for years. There are a fair number of two player games currently in the top 100 as well. I t

Twilight Struggle, a two player game, was the number 1 game on BGG for years. There are a fair number of two player games currently in the top 100 as well. I think BGG has a couple biases that work against these classic, well regarded competitive games. 1. These games are so well-played and studied that they are terrible to play against skill-unmatched opponents. Some of the games in the top 100 would suffer the same but for that no one has tried to treat them the same way. 2. Just like with any other hobbyist rating website, there is a bias toward games that will increase board gamer hipster cred. Chess, Backgammon, etc are not worth anything here. I also think there are plenty of games that are just (to my taste) better than the classics but of course ymmv.