December 12, 2012 | 1:05 PM | By  | 

Slumdog Chess Master: Ugandan girl uses chess to escape extreme poverty | 

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A great story, of an illiterate Ugandan girl whose father died of AIDS, lived in a slum and found an escape by mastering chess. My favorite part of this CNN interview is when chess champ Phiona Mutesi says on a visit to New York City that she doesn’t like it: “Too noisy.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0XY60N5ho

  • http://aviewfromthecave.com Tom Murphy

    I think NPR did a story about her a month ago. Maybe it was PRI. Either way it was a neat story about her and chess.