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One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende. Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids in the Katwe slum through chess - a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. Laying a chess -board in the dirt, Robert began to teach. At first children came for a free bowl of porridge, but many grew to love the game that - like their daily lives - requires persevering against great obstacles. Of these kids, one girl stood out as an immense talent: Phiona. By the age of eleven Phiona was her country's junior champion, and at fifteen, the national champion. Now a Woman Candidate Master - the first female titled player in her country's history - Phiona dreams of becoming a Grandmaster, the most elite level in chess. But to reach that goal, she must grapple with everyday life in one of the world's most unstable coun-tries. The Queen of Katwe is a remarkable and inspirational book that shows how 'Phiona's story transcends the limitations of the chessboard' (Robert Hess, US Grandmaster).

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Queen of Katwe
• Author: Tom Crothers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780349141770
• ISBN: 0349141770
• ID: 09300784
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 220 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. September 2016

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