Too close to loose!!!

How do you kill some time in transition?

I tried the battleship game in Ubuntu.

Well, I was so so close... See the pic.

All but two dots, every place but two more dots are covered in the playing field.
I lost! but, I think that was interesting match with computer.
Just to trick it, I placed everything clustered at single place. The random shot kept searching everywhere but not the place nearby.

Have you played it so close? (so close to winning...)