Watch Magnus Carlsen, No. 1 ranked chess player in the world, subdue the world’s second richest man in a friendly game of chess. The match only lasted one minute and 19 seconds. It just goes to show you that even billionaire geniuses like Bill Gates don’t win at everything.
This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2014.
It didn’t really take 79 seconds. Carlsen used only 10 seconds on his own clock.