what's up with HN and these personal-marketing puff pieces? read almost like any old Wired article. it is a well written fiction, that stretches reality far an

what's up with HN and these personal-marketing puff pieces? read almost like any old Wired article. it is a well written fiction, that stretches reality far and wide. Should be in the literature section of the newspaper. why is this even near news? spoiler: He lost every single game he ever played with his month of "training". And here is a golden passage on the "article": """ Max played three matches [with amateurs in a park] that day. He lost all three. The only sign his month of preparation might not be an epic waste of time was that one of his opponents happened to be wearing jeans made by G-Star—the same G-Star that once sponsored Magnus Carlsen. """ ...what does that even mean?!