![]() ![]() Phiona’s dream is to one day become a Grandmaster, the most elite title in chess. By the age of eleven Phiona was her country’s junior champion and at fifteen, the national champion. At first they came for a free bowl of porridge, but many grew to love chess, a game that – like their daily lives – means persevering against great obstacles. When he left at night, slum kids played on with bottle caps on scraps of cardboard. Laying a chessboard in the dirt of the Katwe slum, Robert painstakingly taught the game each day. Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids through chess – a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. A story of life, chess and one girl’s dream of becoming a Grandmasterĭescription (courtesy of Goodreads): One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende, who had also grown up in the Kampala slums. ![]()
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