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 Uganda ...

Phiona Mutesi is about to get the rockstar treatment — a rarity for a chess champion. Mutesi isn't a famous singer or a U.S. president, but a young woman from Uganda who happens to be a chess genius, ...

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.

Phiona Mutesi was nine years old when she was first introduced to the game of chess. But it wasn’t the love of the game that attracted her to it at first — it was the chance to enjoy a meal. 8:01 ...

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Phiona's mother was able to take this money and buy food and pay off some debt," says Katende. Not long after, Phiona was on her way to Russia, a country she had never heard of before, to compete. At ...

Inspirational stories have more than one purpose — they're to encourage us, of course, but they're also here to show us that sometimes ordinary people can do the extraordinary. You can achieve your ...

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. "I never believed that this time would come, ...