Life In 19x19

I'm currently playing games against Aya, and after the game ends it does a sort of 'post-game analysis' where it shows territory, dead stones, unclaimed territory, etc.

What are stones that have dots on them? Does it mean they are neither dead not claiming territory? In the example board I've ...

Thank you for the response, and even commentary!

I know that one reason I can win is because the computer doesn't defend well enough, and let's me take large groups if I surround them sufficiently. ;_; I'm hoping that at higher levels it will stop doing that, and then in the future I can upgrade to ...

Here's another game I just finished.

I really don't understand how I'm suddenly doing so well against this AI. As recently as last week I was losing by, on average, more than 15 points every game. Maybe my go has improved a little bit?

Is there any way to determine what rank the AI plays at? I ...

So the Kindle Fire has a pretty good Go app, although I only have the free version at the moment, which only allows the first 60 moves of a 19x19 game, but full games for 9x9 and 13x13.

I'm not sure how strong the program is, but it has 10 AI levels. I beat the first level easily enough and the ...