Katwe’s Queen of Gameen is still in the game for Ugandan’s staining chess players

A famous chess club, a famous chess club, which has become a capital city of Uganda, which has become a Hollywood Movie Queen Center, is still a champion – but is fighting daily to live.

Robert Katende, managed by chess head coach Robert Katende, in the Disney film, which was released in 2016, in the Disney film, despite the material struggles, he believes that children are trying to change their lives for better than chess.

“We use chess as a teaching tool. To determine and guide the potential of students, Mr. Katende visited the Somchess Academy and told the BBC in Kampala’s poor neighborhood.

Shortly after graduating as a civilian engineer, in Katwe, as a football coach in Katwe, as a chess head coach, began to start a chessboard and determine the determination of a chessboard.

The nine-year-old Phyon Mutesi joined the school for a year and was attended and continued to be a joined and chess prodrigy.

He was named the National Women’s Junior Champion, competed in several influential international chess Olympics and was given to the Women’s Candidate Master of the Women’s Candidate by the World Chess Federation.

It was a remarkable story in the film, Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong’o played his mother.

Mr. Katende shows the sustainability and determination of success and the transformative power of chess.

Many Mr. Katende, including 18-year-old Patricia Kawuma, continue to be inspired.

“In addition to getting school scholarships, this game teaches me how to strategy and plan on the strategy, and it taught me to show discipline and patience,” he said.

He also represented in two international tournaments in Uganda and won the chess competitions.

The prize money and sponsorship allowed him to pay for their school fees, as well as sisters.

Mr. Katende said that more than 4,000 children have passed through more than 4,000 children in the last two decades, while we have more than 4,000 children, while we are physicians, engineers and lawyers.

His great bitter, in 2012, the journalist drew the eye of Disney on MS Mutesi by Tim Conshers.

When the film company decided to go ahead and turn the book into a film, he gave him a one-time grant to $ 50,000 (£ 36,000).

This allowed to buy a property from the place managed by the Academy and Robert Katende initiative in Kathwe.

The Chess Club managed to extend to sessions from Katwe to the sessions in Ugandan and in neighboring Kenya and Rwanda, Botswana, Cameroon and Malawi countries.

Currently, more than 2,500 children and about 800 prisoners are in programs that help their programs, develop and make critical decisions.

“Chess is a metaphor for life. There are difficulties and surprises everywhere, but if you look closely, you will find your way,” 43 olds told me: “

“A bad move in chess means that you will lose, the same as life.”

There is a movement that works on the Queen of Katwe, as a title story adviser and there is an action to teach actors in chess scenes, did not predict.

Walt Disney has lost a loss over the film – and this, this is testimonies for chess projects that grow up.

He said that MS Mutesi and the mother of the chess champion is a share of any Disney earnings – 67%.

However, he was noted by the corporation that Mira Nair’s director was returned by Mira Nair after the investment of $ 15 million (£ 11 million).

“The losses put me in a bad place because people think I hide a little money,” Mr. Katende said.

“Many people think that I am a rich Hollywood chess coach after the film, but the harsh truth is that you do not benefit from his benefit.”

However, it says that the film and the internation of the local and international partners are as painful as it is socialized.

“If the Disney was not done, it would not be where we were; I don’t think we can’t – and many other people came to support your philosophy,” he said.

The fame of the MS Mutsi helped its northwestern university in 2017 and now works as a business analyst in Canada and can support his mother in Canada and back home.

However, Mr. Katende’s mission faces great financial problems.

“We have to reduce operations and close some training centers. There were 14 crews before the coviet, but we now have eight.

Thousands of players in Uganda have to climb only 120 chess plates due to lack of funds.

Uganda trucking small chess champion, 19-year-old Jovan Cashi – Mr. Katende’s protegés were also shot.

The Katende Chess Initiative pays for the school, and the adolescents were sometimes able to watch the crowd for chess education sessions – but last year he missed the international tournament because he could not collect $ 400 for his ticket last year.

“But I do not give up chess, the game stimulates my mind and forced me to be very good in math. This makes me think like a computer.”

Mr. Katunda, when it comes to Disney, is equally educating, saying it can be a long game.

“Hopefully, they will reach me if these are broken,” he said, then added that he could earn.