Is It OK to Lose on the Chessboard?

i wonder if part of what makes children able to engage so intensely with games and get so involved in them is exactly the fact that they are able to maintain an illusion that the stakes of the game are higher than they are. And thus, like, winning becomes absolutely necessary. But it also makes me think about, you know, g going back to the ways that different personalities and different people am have very different ideas of fun. It's a place where, ultimately, it doesn't matter. If we're approaching the game with the right mind set, then this is indeed a neutral space. This is a magic circle in which we can bring things from the outside, but we don't have