The queen of Katwe
Subtitle: a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster
By: Tim Crothers
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waterville, ME
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781410454553
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Biography; Women chess players
Description: In the slums of Kampala, Uganda, Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona is also one of the world's best chess players. One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona met Robert Katende, a war refugee turned missionary. Katende had an improbable dream: to empower slum kids through chess - a game for which there is no word in their language.