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==Contrast with Rubber Bridge==

Duplicate bridge differs from [[contract bridge#Scoring - Rubber Bridge|rubber bridge]]: whereas the goal in rubber bridge is to win more points than the pair of people you are playing against, in duplicate bridge the goal is to do better than other pairs playing the exact same same cards. Because of this, strategies are different. In rubber, 30 points above the line for an overtrick is unimportant. In match-points duplicate, it is common for those 30 points to mean you get a top score instead of average. In rubber, an occasional 800-point penalty is disastrous, but in duplicate it is no worse than any other bottom score. International match points is in the middle of these extremes. Huge penalties are worse than small penalties, but then 30 point differences are only moderately important.

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