![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, she was playing, and defeating, the most advanced boys in the group. The program leader, Robert Katende, encouraged the shy Phiona to join and paired her with a 4-year-old girl to pick up the basics of the game. There, she encountered a group of children learning about chess through an outreach program designed to bring food, sports and religion to poor children. Eager to find out where her brother Brian went when he " away from his chores," 9-year-old Phiona followed him to a "dusty veranda" in Katwe, the slum where they lived. ![]() Phiona Mutesi discovered chess by accident. Sports journalist Crothers' ( The Man Watching: A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever, 2006, etc.) moving account of an impoverished Ugandan girl's unlikely rise to prominence in the world of competitive chess. ![]()
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