translation help needed

[Oldman68]

my guess : i play for fun, not to lose eating.....

[carolton67]

I play for fun, not to win or lose.

[Oldman68]

Thanks carolton67. I can decode the individual word but but together sounds different. I did not see any words that indicate 'win' & 'or' but the sentence turns out to be 'win or lose'. So the phrase 'chớ ăn thua vì' turns out to be 'not to win or lose'.