How to Lose a Go Match, in Style!

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Not being a native English speaker, I thought sare was a typo.
Boy, was I wrong.
Sare (although a bit archaic British) means dry, withered.

sare - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Do you ever feel guilty for winning?

This question made me think of a paragraph in Noriyuki Nakayama’s The Tresure Chest Enigma. On page 41-42 in an chapter titled The Art of Resignation the author wrote: There is story of about Kita [Fumiko] when she was about 13 or 14, when she would have been two stones short of professional strength. One day she played a game with a leading amateur player, who was nicknamed Devil Shibata. Kita placed two stones and was having a hard time of it, but she fought hard and pulled off an upset vic…