Last week Jennifer Shahade celebrated the publication of her book, Chess Bitch, at the historic Marshall Chess Club in NYC. I first heard of this book about professional women chess players back in March. Chessbase has a short article about the book and the event:

According to the 2003 American champion Alexander Shabalov, professionals have not overcome that obstacle: he said that most men, regardless of their strength, are thinking about sex for most of the game. With characteristic candor, the Latvian-born grandmaster tells me: 'In most games, I am thinking about girls for about fifty to seventy-five percent of the time, another fifteen percent goes to time management, and with what's left over, I am calculating.'

I'm looking forward to reading it. The customer reviews on amazon are pretty funny.