This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day

Re:This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day by wahern on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:30PM (#15589065)

The article title is more than unfair, it drips with prejudice and, well, racism. When you make the same kind of living from the privacy of a Manhattan apartment by playing rich tycoons, you're a sage:

  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/wall-street-s-best-kept-secret-is-russian-chess-master-lev-alburt

The title is clearly clickbait. I'll leave it to the scholars at prestigious universities to bicker about why it works as clickbait. As for the title itself, let's just call a spade a spade.

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Re:This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day by sndean on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:48PM (#15589214)

Yeah, I probably should've submitted it with a more pleasant title. "Bobby Fischer of Union Square" or something like that.

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Re:This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day by bdcravens on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:42PM (#15589625)

Generally speaking, HN prefers you submit with original title, though this may fall under "linkbait":

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

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