A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

Phiona Mutesi's life inspired the film Disney film Queen of Katwe Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE Phiona Mutesi was simply searching for food when she stumbled upon Robert Katende teaching chess in her ...

Phiona Mutesi And it was chess that gave her the chance. At the Seattle premiere of "Queen of Katwe," the president of a small Christian college, Northwest University, offered Mutesi a scholarship.

KAMPALA — Phiona Mutesi, 16, grew up in a Kampala slum and learned chess from a mission when she stumbled in looking for free food. Now she's an international chess champion, playing in ...

(NEW YORK) — The first time Phiona Mutesi, 20, saw people playing chess, she thought it was people gambling."I'd never seen it in my life and usually in Uganda, it was always, like, ...

Phiona Mutesi was simply searching for food when she stumbled upon Robert Katende teaching chess in her Uganda village – but what she found was a new life. Disney's Queen of Katwe portrays the ...

Phiona Mutesi grew up in one of the roughest slums in Uganda. Her days were spent focusing on survival, until she discovered chess. She's now on her way to becoming a world-class chess competitor.

Phiona Mutesi’s journey from a Ugandan slum to the world stage as champion chess player was inspired by hunger. “I was yearning for porridge,” the 16-year-old Mutesi said as she recalled ...

"Phiona, let's play a game of chess," he suggested. Just 10 or so moves into their first game, Mutesi exposed her queen. Crothers, a recreational player, studied the board.

FILE - Robert Katende (L) and Ugandan chess player Phiona Mutesi (R), who are portrayed in "Queen of Katwe," pose at the film's Los Angeles premiere in Hollywood, California, Sept. 20, 2016.

ESPN The Magazine shares the story of Uganda's Phiona Mutesi, a 14-year-old chess prodigy who lives in one of the world's poorest slums.

Here’s the part of Phiona Mutesi’s story you might know from the Disney movie "Queen of Katwe." She grew up in Katwe, Kampala’s largest slum. Her dad died when she was a toddler. Starting at ...