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Chess grandmaster beats Bill Gates in just over a minute

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the world's second-richest man, decided it might be fun to challenge the best chess player on the planet to a match. The results were not pretty.

Gates challenged Mangun Carlsen to a match broadcasted on the Norwegian talk show Skavlan and the chess master defeated the tech genius in 79 seconds, outmatching him from the first move on.



Check the video here (only 90 seconds long):



Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 25 Jan 2014 20:19

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• hearme0

  Impressive!

  29.1.2014 16:30 #1

• 8686

  wow, taylor lautner kicked his butt.
  

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  31.1.2014 10:57 #2

• ronatola

  He should have bet him ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!
  BWAAAHAHAHAHA
  

  31.1.2014 13:14 #3