[scrumper]

I can't figure it out but I'm positive that 12 year old me would have lost from this position.

Fools mate in an inter-school tournament, the only player on my team to lose his game and thus the only one who didn't get ice cream on the drive home. Still hurts.

EDIT: actually it isn't that hard! I really could cock it up from that position.

[vidar]

Not giving icecream to a 12 year old because he lost a game is just outright cruel. :(

[Scarblac]

In Dutch high level youth chess it's usual for there to be a target score for the entire team based on the strength of the opposition that day (say the goal of that day is to score at least 6/10), and then _the entire team_ gets icecream or not depending.

[scrumper]

Nah, I was 12. That's old enough to learn about failure in a fairly direct way. It was a good lesson and I'm glad my teacher stuck to it/

Sure, if I'd put up a good fight and lost because he was better, perhaps I'd be a bit sadder, but I really failed. (I still remember it clearly: I was distracted by my opponent's disgusting acne. I also had a turns-out-justified case of impostor syndrome about my place on the team).

[DanBC]

It certainly helps to set a pattern of unhealthy eating.

"You loser! Go eat an apple. Us winners are enjoying this delicious ice-cream".