Less than two minutes and nine moves flat! That's exactly how long 23-year-old newly crowned Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took to defeat Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in a game of chess.
Bill Gates may be the head of one of the most successful software companies in the world, but the tech genius was put down by a 23-year-old prodigy in a game of chess. The newly-crowned world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate the software genius and Microsoft chairman, Gates. The game, which lasted for less than two minutes, was recorded for Norwegian TV "NRK" in London, Wednesday, with host Fredrik Skavlan.
"Wow, that was fast," Gates reacted after losing the game to the Norwegian champion.
The 58-year-old business magnate said before the game commenced that the challenge had "a predetermined outcome" and then joked that he felt intellectually inadequate "when [he] played chess against [Carlsen]," Reuters reported.
The rules of the game were that Gates, who was ranked the world's second richest person in 2013 behind Carlos Slim by Forbes, had two minutes to make his moves while his competitor Carlsen had only 30 seconds. Carlsen took merely one second for each move against Gates and concluded the game in 1 minute and 19 seconds.
Carlsen, who is also called the "Justin Bieber of chess" for his rock star appeal, has gained dominance over the game since he was 13-years-old and in November last year, the young chess champion defeated India's Viswanathan Anand to take his first world title.
Carlsen has played the game of his expertise with other celebrities including Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whom he played against earlier this month. He shared a photo of his gameplay with Zuckerberg, which took place at billionaire investor Yuri Milner's mansion in Silicon Valley.
