world championship – or at the very least we need to, you know, actually cover it.

Some women have already made attempts to address the discrepancy in media coverage and to raise the profile of female chess players. Take, for instance, the Chilean chess player and musician Juga, who is currently releasing music exploring her identity and experiences as a woman in chess. By branching out, she is able to both boost her reputation within the traditional community as well as drawing attention to female players among audiences who have had less exposure to the world of chess tournaments. It seems that this may be just the time to bring about the endgame of male-dominated chess.

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Some people are bemoaning the slow collapse of the book publishing industry. Other people are turning the collapse into a chance to speculate, hoarding books in the hopes that the coming "scarcity of print" will cause existing volumes to dramatically increase in value.Woodside, Queens-resident Adam Spellman was let go from his job at HarperCollins last fall. He had been an assistant editor at HarperCollins for over five years, though he says he could see the end of his job coming the whole time."The only books we were buying were celebrity memoirs and political screeds," said Spellman. "You don't really need a professional editor to make sure that all your books are consistently at an eighth-grade reading level. There's a