There's no disputing that Bill Gates is blessed with a brilliant
mind. Sure, he dropped out of Harvard College, but he got accepted into
the elite institution of higher learning in the first place. Leading
into his college career, Gates scored 1,590 out of 1,600 on the SAT. The
rest is history — he went on to co-found Microsoft, built a net worth
that's in the billions ($76.8 billion at last count), and now spends his
time on his philanthropic efforts. Regardless, it took 23-year-old
Magnus Carlsen, a "grandmaster" Chess player since the age of 13 and new
world Chess champion, just 71 seconds to defeat Gates in a friendly game of Chess on a Norwegian television show. It takes longer to heat up a cup of water in the microwave.
