User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/Don't Play to Win, Ever/@comment-90.39.234.152-20130111142300/@comment-5791947-20130111154155

He's correct.

When you play to improve, you are also playing to win. Tell me one occasion where a person plays to improve and lose on purpose? Playing to improve will never result in a purposeful defeat, because you're improving the flow of the game.

A loser's way would be "play for fun", which means you give up the moment your team loses, because the win isn't important.

Playing to improve requires much more effort than simply "playing for fun", and it allows you to notice mistakes easier, as opposed to "play to win", where you're prone to oversight simple mistakes.