Magnus smashes his opponent in 71 seconds
71 seconds? Who on Earth... Bill Gates, that's who.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/pluggedin/bill-gates-obliterated-chess-champ-just-over-one-174129124.html
The world's richest man (or thereabouts) met the world's best chess player Thursday night on Skavlan, a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. Inevitably a board was brought out, at which point fellow Norwegian Magnus Carlsen -- who also happens to be a chess grandmaster -- took the Microsoft founder to school by achieving checkmate in just 71 seconds.
Gates, to his credit, knew he didn't stand a chance.
"The outcome is a foregone conclusion," he said as a chessboard was brought onto the show. But the look of amazement on his face in just how fast he lost is priceless.
Carlsen, who recently beat India's Vishwanathan Anand to become the official world champ, says Gates fell right into the traps he set, but generously added that Gates had played a good game.
