Mark Zuckerberg was so keen to beat a high school girl at Scrabble that he wrote a computer program to show him word combinations

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• Mark Zuckerberg once coded a program to help him beat a schoolchild at Scrabble, according to a lengthy New Yorker profile of the Facebook chief executive.
• Zuckerberg wrote the code after the daughter of friend beat him in their first game aboard a private jet.
• The flight landed before the game could finish, but Zuckerberg's program was winning by a small margin.

Mark Zuckerberg's ambition has been well-documented, but a simple game of Scrabble has revealed to what lengths the tech billionaire will go to win.

The New Yorker's Evan Osnos has written a lengthy profile on the Facebook chief executive on Monday which details the story of Zuckerberg facing off with a highschooler.

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