For comparison, there's a lot of different ways to make chess games more even between differently skilled players through chess handicaps: https://en.wikipedia.

For comparison, there's a lot of different ways to make chess games more even between differently skilled players through chess handicaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(chess)#Main https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(chess)#Main Paul Morphy (one of the greats) commonly played mortals a rook or more down