Visiting Monte Carlo in the early 1920s, Marcel Duchamp persuaded himself that he could beat the casinos at their own gambit. “I believe I have eliminated the word chance,” he informed the French businessman Jacques Doucet. “I would like to think I have forced roulette to become a game of chess.” Duchamp was serious enough that he designed a bond to raise money for his high-stakes gamble. Investors could advance five hundred francs, to be paid b…
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