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Are there ways to handicap bridge as there are in chess and go?

Certainly, you can. Whether it's at all useful is another question, as others have been saying. The ACBL has formulas for handicapping pairs and teams (based on Masterpoint total; there is another ...
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What does an equal odds Go game look like between a top human and top AI?

I found a recent life in 19x19 thread which had mentioned a KataGo result only in passing, but which received some notice. It seems that succeeding with a 3-stone handicap against a top-rated AI ...
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Are there ways to handicap bridge as there are in chess and go?

My local club occasionally hosts a handicap duplicate game, in which weaker pairs are spotted a few matchpoints to start. I don't play rubber bridge, but I would imagine that you could start by ...
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Are there ways to handicap bridge as there are in chess and go?

Not really. The problem is that for any handicap to be meaningful the players must be quite close in ability. So close, that a handicap is pointless. Beyond that the game is either structurally ...
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