Making a living from chess?

Forbes has a new article about the prospects of making a living from chess. Tl;dr* version is that things are better than they used to be, but it's still tough. The article is interesting enough, but also familiar enough to chess veterans.

However, the article also has an interesting comment from Susan Polgar, which I give in full:

I completely disagree with the notion that making a good living in chess is hard. It is not.

Making a living from tournament winnings is hard. But making a living in chess in general is not. I have seen many amateurs, with ratings well below 2000, earn much more money than some top 10-20 players in the world.

The problem is professional players know chess. But they lack knowledge in business, management, marketing, and most importantly, people’s skill as well as communication skill. Some are just lazy to learn new skills to enhance their earning ability in chess.

There are plenty of people making a very good living in chess in California (both northern and southern Cal), New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Washington State, Maryland, Missouri, and many more states.

Of course, I'd like more data from the Forbes article, and I'd also like more information on who is making a living from chess from GM Polgar, although I can understand if she wouldn't want to name names.

Still, I thought I would put this up for anyone that missed it. There's also a video at the site, with several of the people who were interviewed for the article commenting. So if you haven't seen enough Ben Finegold lately, here's your chance!

* tl;dr is internet parlance from those crazy kids for "too long; didn't read".