For what it’s worth, my suggestions were, play on
an even smaller board: 5x5 at cosumi.net/en
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I’m sorry but this just isn’t true.
Take this game for example:
After only about 30 moves the game was already pretty much lost for you. The game then continued for more than 200 more moves with your opponent continuously extending their lead up to about 200 (!) points.
This is not “lasting long” and it was not “hard to win” for your opponent at all.
It is just a long series of stones being thrown onto a Go board without making any sense from a Go perspective.
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AGAIN - that is using your criteria you are right the game was lost long before i reached my goal which is to keep playing as long as i could before they take 20 stones in the case of 19x19 games and 10 stones in 13x13 – but using your point of play –i should have stopped play after 30 moves and resigned then in your opinion i have lost and should not have continued playing—– i like to play using my way of playing i can still put up a fight till i get to the point were i fail reaching my goals and then resign holdeing off the opponent till then – but thanks for giving your side of the narrow coin you flip
@dokbohm I think an important nuance about GO is that capturing stones is not the objective of the game, securing territory is what matters.
Furthermore, when I played you last I didn’t have to capture any of your stones because I had them surrounded and they posed no threat. So I could just continue to reduce your potential territory while leaving your “dead” stones on the board. We appreciate your novel approach to the game however instead of trying to last as long as you can you’d be better served by practicing how to make two eyes and secure a territory that can NEVER be captured. That’s undoubtedly a better way forward and a sensible goal to work towards
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@dokbohm I asked you this a while ago, but here goes again.
Do you know, from a “rules of Go” perspective, why a stone is removed from the board? What specifically has to happen on the board to cause a capture?
This line is poetry
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Absolutely not.
You should have continued playing, thinking about each move and building living groups that surround as much territory as possible.
You are fighting ghosts.
Any opponent with at least a basic understanding of Go will not even try capturing your stones.
They will not even try to do what you think you are fighting against. If they would, they would be playing bad moves. Any reasonable Go player will not try to capture stones that you give them for free anyway.
You are not putting up a fight.
You are not holding anyone off.
You are not lasting long.
Every single one of your marked black stones in the picture below is already dead and only increases white’s score. Capturing these stones would be a mistake by white.
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your post here does make sense about lost stones – i will in the future make sure my opponet under stands the rules of engagement in the game when we play and will take stones when they are captured so i know where i stand
Interesting 
My dude, how will you convince your opponents to play your game?
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Because @dokbohm is a mastermind.
All of us here are already unknowingly playing his game
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