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Magnus Carlsen only needed 12 seconds on the clock to checkmate the second richest man in the world, Bill Gates. As we reported earlier, Carlsen was to meet the founder of Microsoft, billionaire and philantropist as guests in the talkshow Skavlan.

The show was recorded on Thursday and part of it was a game of chess, which didn't last very long.

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For this blitz game, played in a studio in London, Carlsen was given 30 seconds on the clock against 2 minutes for Gates.

The American billionaire opened with 1.e4, but didn't start the clock.

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Carlsen positioned his pieces, then started his own clock and played 1...Nc6. It was soon over:

Here's a video of the game, which was posted earlier today on Youtube and has been watched over 77K times already!

Gates had 1 minute and 10 seconds left at the end, while Carlsen still had 18 seconds left and so only used 12 seconds.

(In fact he lost about 2 when he tipped over a pawn on move 2, and it seems he als