people wats a timeout ratio less than 10%??? please post

A timeout is when you lose a game on time.  The timeout ratio is how many games, of the games you lost, you lost on time.  If you lose 100 games and 10 were lost on time, your timeout percentage is 10%.

Piotr,

You only have one time out, and you have completed a total of 8 games. If you complete three more games without going over your alloted time per move, then you should no longer have any problems joining a tournament set up for people who have less than a 10% time out ratio.

SonofPearl wrote:

A timeout is when you lose a game on time.  The timeout ratio is how many games, of the games you lost, you lost on time.  If you lose 100 games and 10 were lost on time, your timeout percentage is 10%.

 Actually it's the percentage of your completed games, not just the ones you lost.  In your example, if a person lost 10 games on time, the other 90 games could all be wins, and his timeout perentage would still be 10% (even tho 100% of the losses were due to timeout).

ty everybody !!!!! i was wondering if somebody could help me get beter with my openings? private message me if u hav time

What openings are You interesting in? Actually, the one and only effective way to understand chess is playing! Of course, you should read a book or two with general recommendations (e.g. to centralize pieces, to struggle for center squares, etc.) Alex. 

with white i usually play e4 and usually go into the ruy lopez, sometimes ill play Knight f3 or Kc3 but usually e4, with black usually play e4 e5 but sometimes ill play silican. i was wondering whats the least complex way to counter d4. i usually just play Kf6 but that ends up in a really complex fight over the center