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Originally Posted by Arya
Out-matching them was a way to respect them instead of humiliate them.
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This, I agree with. It reminds me of the other day when I was playing table tennis for the first time with my eleven year old grandson. After "humiliating" him with the first game (21 to 6), he wanted a rematch. I asked him if he wanted me to give him a handicap, saying that I could play left-handed. He said emphatically no, he wanted to win fair and square.
To me, letting someone else win (or at least lose less drastically) by inhibiting your own performance would be more humiliating to the opponent than beating them "fair and square" as my grandson put it.