cheating wouldn't be cheating if you were allowed to do it. i don't' think following the rules is considered taking it too serious. if you lose (or win) and gloat or brood about it 15 minutes after the game has ended, then maybe you might be taking it too serious. running around with your index finger raised in the air, doing an endzone dance and screaming "i'm number one, bitches, yeah, reckognize" when you win at monopoly might indicate a problem, as does wanting revenge. but if you play to win, and then after the game is over, continue with life realizing nothing just happened, then don't' worry about it.
as for letting a kid win, if he follows the rules and you sometimes make the "wrong move" and he wins now and again, that's not so bad, is it?
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