![]() ![]() At first, Mutesi went for the food - but she started to get good at the game. If you learned how to play chess, you could get a free meal. When she was 9, she found out about a chess club in the neighborhood. She says those fights with her brothers shaped what happened next. "So the person who lost had to do everything." Mutesi says they had a name for that room. They hated it. So, when it was time to do the chores, they’d go into a room in their house where they’d have a fist fight to see who had to do the work. She and her siblings also had to do all the work around the house - the cooking, the cleaning. "My life was just surviving," Mutesi says. Starting at a young age, she and her siblings had to sell maize on the street instead of going to school. She grew up in Katwe, Kampala’s largest slum. Here’s the part of Phiona Mutesi’s story you might know from the Disney movie " Queen of Katwe." ![]() (Michele Sibiloni/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 4 years old. ![]()
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