The main aim of this paper is to give a simple criterion for a finite
poset I with two maximal elements to have the category I-spr of socle
projective representations of tame representation type. Our main resul
t is Theorem 1 which asserts that for any upper chain reducible poset
I with two maximal elements (see Definition 8) the category I-spr is o
f tame representation type if and only if the Tits quadratic form q(1)
: Q(1) --> Q (1.1) of I is weakly non-negative, or equivalently, if an
d only if I does not contain as a peak subposet any of the one-peak po
sets N-1,...,N-6* of Nazarova presented in Theorem 1 or any of the 41
two-peak posets listed in Table 1.