Help a terrible player learn!

I'm not a good player by any means, but I don't think I did too bad in this game. What could of been done better by me?

Again, I'm still learning so any pointers would be fantastic!

Mr_Cj:

42. Rd8#

Black resigned before I got chance to. :)

He means you didn't have to take the pawn at the end. You could have mated a lot faster.

Ah, my apologies. Yeah, silly mistake, guess I wasn't thinking really at that point since I had all the extra material.

While your opening is good in the fact that you traded an f pawn for an e pawn, thus gaining control of the center, you should avoid movinb your f pawn until you know what you're doing on the chess board. It opens up some attacking positions for your opponent. For example, if your opponent's queen checked Qh4+ and had a bishop on the b1-h2 diagonal, the response of b3 would be met with Bxb3+. After you take the bishop your rook is hanging. You would then have to move your king and lose your castle (and the pawn).

In the second line (i.e. the moves in blue), why 40 Qd1? why not 40 Rxb2

Oh, oversaw that. So axb2 isn't that good. 39. Qd1?? is a blunder though than. So either Rxb8+ or Rxb2 wins for white.