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Email Your Guide

Like all the Guides at About.com, your Chess Guide is a real person, not an autoresponder or some other kind of Internet robot. Unfortunately, he receives hundreds and hundreds of spam messages every day, doesn't have the time to open all of it, and has to select real messages from the few clues contained in the message title.

Follow these guidelines for the best results:

• Don't leave the title of your message blank.
• Don't use a title that says 'Hi', 'Hey there', or something similar. Spammers love these titles.
• Do use a real chess phrase other than 'Chess question', 'New link', or something similar. Spammers assume that your guide's first name is 'Chess' (last name 'Guide'!) and address the titles of their messages accordingly. They also use unimaginative message titles that could refer to almost any subject.

Your guide loves to get real chess-related email, retrieves messages once a day, and replies to every serious message! If you don't get a response after a few days, send your message again. We'd hate to have it lost in the mounds of junk mail just because your guide blinked at the wrong time.

We're sincerely sorry that all of this advice is necessary just to ask a simple question. Blame the spammers!

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