Was that rude??

Why not 57... Qf1#?

No offence, but you seem to struggle winning a queen + rook vs king and pawn endgame.

I wouldn't have done tht if i were u. it's best not to say anything in these situations.

Dear kco, Dear DrSpudnik:

I have no idea as to how to respond to your replies, this is an open forum please feel free to contribute to the discussion in anyway you like.

Dear Deranged:

Maybe I was struggling. Although I train for basic endgames but my patience runs thin sometimes and I keep grabbing pawns and stuff like that instead of simply making the best (mating) move. In fact I once analyzed one of my games and found that I missed 4 or 5 mate-in-one's but it didn't matter much since I won eventually.

I think I need more endgame training, just to tame my tempers.

Thanks a lot for your advice.

Dear theblindtiger

I now realize and fully understand that it was a mistake. I really appreciate the fact that several members have commented and told me their opinion.

Thanks guys :)

Dear echecs

Thank you for your kind words.

You know in my mother language, Arabic, we have a similar saying, it translates to "It is a virtue to admit your fault".

The important thing is to learn something, I believe. And thanks to you guys I have learned to better control my temper and to chat less and play more.

Thanks a lot!

echecs06

I don't know really what to say.

That means a lot... A LOT...

Piano guy, faysal is being overly kind to you.  You obviously did not read is OP very well.  He clearly did not mean to communicate anything to his opponent about resigning.  He meant to only say that he was relieved to not be concerned about what he was afraid of in his opponnet'st position.  He really could not have been more clear about that.  You are either not npaying attention or ignoring his content.  IMO Faysal's problem is that what he wrote could he be interpreted as telling the opponent "enough, you should resign". 

Fysal, my feeling is that you're better of not making comments of anysort about the game with your opponent unless you are willing to be completely misunderstood, just like pianoguy completely misunderstood even your clear explanation.   However if you're going to make comments about your own state of mind use sentences that will hopefully decrease the odds of being misunderstood.

Finally my suggestion is to not worry so much about what other people thing and just concern yourself with improving your game.   I think those books earler listed in one of your posts are a great way to get started.

I personally would take that as being rude. AIt was an excamation of relief in your victory and your opponants defeat. It is poor manners to rub it in in this way. I understand you didn't mean rudeness. Maybe say, "phew, that was stressfull.

Dear polydiatonic

True, written word does not communicate the whole meaning of a statement, as one study shows that:

            "A fairer way of transferring Mehrabian's findings to modern

             written (memo, email etc) and telephone communications is

             simply to say that greater care needs to be taken in the use

             of language and expression, because the visual channel does

             not exist."

http://www.businessballs.com/mehrabiancommunications.htm

so, I totally agree with you about that.

And I will try to improve my game as much as time permits, that's one thing that I'm sure of.

Thanks for stopping by.

Dear msoewulff

Thank you for your opinion, much appreciated.

"Phew!" was the magic word, unfortunately it didn't come to my mind.

Thanks again.

Dear echecs06

Seems like we're staying in the silver trade for a bit longer ;)

Best regards to you all.