Patent ID: 8317598

Claim:
A method of enabling players of a multi-player electronic skill-based game played by two or more players having different skill levels to compete on a fair reward basis, comprising: (a) assigning, by a computing device, a skill-based handicap to each player participating in the game; (b) detecting, by the computing device, when a first player achieves a rewardable result against a second player of the two or more players, wherein the achievement of the rewardable result produces a corresponding penalisable result on the second player; and (c) after detecting the first player achieving the rewardable result, determining, by the computing device, a quantum of a reward associated with the rewardable result, to be credited to an account associated with the first player, as a function of at least the skill-based handicap associated with the first player and the skill-based handicap associated with the second player, and determining a quantum of a penalty associated with the penalisable result on the second player, to be debited from an account associated with the second player, as a function of at least the skill-based handicap associated with the second player and the skill-based handicap associated with the first player participating in the game, such that the quantum of the reward corresponds to the quantum of the penalty.