Life In 19x19

Okay, I'm still confused, but have been reading a lot...scoring is a lot harder than I first perceived. And so far, I've not read any chapter in a book on scoring that thoroughly educates me (obviously). I will continue to work on it and read this forum which is new to me. I'm 46 years old and a ...

White won by 83.5. That's my count.

I tried to post the game, not sure I did it correctly, but it also said it was awaiting approval from a moderator. I might try again...the way I did it was I downloaded the "sgf" and then attached it to the post and put it 'inline' to the post.

I am VERY new, but I don't understand IGS scoring. When I manually count, it's no where NEAR the score that is given. I'm still learning, but I just played a game where I was fine with how we marked the stones, but the final score was over twice the manual count I did.

To be clear, I'm new and I'm ...