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Bill Gates takes on world chess champ
Mr Gates lost to Mr Carlsen in 1min 20 sec
Stockholm - Newly crowned Norwegian world chess Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate Microsoft founder Bill Gates in a speed game.
Challenged to a game in a chat show hosted by well-known Norwegian televsion presenter Fredrik Skavlan, Mr Gates said before the game, which was recorded on Wednesday in London, that the challenge had "a predetermined outcome".
Mr Gates, 58, had two minutes to make his moves against just 30 seconds for Mr Carlsen.
He lost to the 23-year-old in around 1 minute 20 seconds.
"Wow, that was fast," he said to Mr Carlsen
Asked by Mr Skavlan under what circumstances he felt intellectually inadequate, Mr Gates answered: "When I play chess with him (Carlsen)."
Mr Carlsen, a grandmaster since he was 13, beat defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India last November to take his first world title.
Reuters
