For a peek into the life of Botvinnik, see this insight, courtesy of his colleague Averbakh:

<Later, I risked asking Ilya Abramovich (Kan) about this incident. He remarked sarcastically: <<<'Botvinnik thinks that he is world champion not only at chess, but in everything else. He- a totally ordinary person!'>>>>

The worst and most pointless video KC has ever made! Shades of Goldsbeus, and must be satirical in a non funny way.

Retroactively?

So Magnus just played a cheap trick in the game (probably knowing that Gates was a weak player) and reckoned that Gates would play the losing move 9.Nxe5.>

Yep.

Either that or he wanted to give himself more of a challenge if Gates did see through the trap.

Still a bit surprising from Carlsen. I'd have expected him to play principled chess, even against weak opposition.

<Daniel Freeman:
Bill Gates showed some naivety in this game. His first fishy move was 3.Bd3 — no good player would block their own pawn like that. That’s enough to tell me that I (or any competent player) could beat Bill Gates in a similar contest.

When Carlsen played 7…Ne5 he was offering Gates a “gift.” You can tell from the video that Gates realized that something was going on. He probably was thinking “The world champion offering me a ‘free’ bishop? What’s up with that?” Instead of cowering in fear he accepted the gift—as he should have!

But then Gates went horribly wrong. Instead of playing the correct 9.Re1 (preventing checkmate on h2) he captured 9.Nxe5?? and it was game over instantly.

Here’s the funny thing: Magnus was playing for tricks, and had Bill found 9.Re1 he would have been objectively in a much better position. You could say this: Gates was in a winning position against the world champion after only 8 moves, but then went horribly wrong and overlooked a checkmate on move 9.>

Anyway, I recommend to watch also the Skavlan show, short interview with Bill Gates is quite interesting.

Any my video "analysis" of that complicated game :D