Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids through chess-a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende, who had also grown up in the Kampala slums. Phiona Mutesi is also one of the best chess players in the world. Phiona has been out of school most of her life because her mother cannot afford it, so she is only now learning to read and write. PHIONA MUTESI sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.
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