Verily I sayeth unto MuffyScruff, Callhamer begat the Classic and he saw it and called it good, but other, the heretics, begat the Variants, each and everyone one an abomination in Callhamer's site.
And Callhamer sayeth, "Thou shall honor no game before the Classic, nor shall you honor builds not in the home centers, for all others are unclean. Nor shall you value plastic pieces, but instead, cling only to wooden pieces in face-to-face meetings of the faithful. You shall covet your neighbors centers as you covet his wife, his child, his slave, and his ass."
Hummmm....getting to sound a little like a souther Baptist or a Florida Republican, so I better stop.