Contact Admin. Very nice article about the growth of chess as a great tool for education in Uganda This promises to be an excellent film. The official trailer of the Disney Queen of Katwe has been released! Follow the link below to check it out!! Click Here for the Queen of Katwe Trailer. Movie excitement is building!!! Phiona Mutesi has again taken the championship of the Uganda Rwabushenyi Chess Championship which just concluded this week in Kampala. Phiona only lost to fellow Olympian Gorretti Angolikin to finish with seven points out of possible eight.
In second place was Gloria Nansubuga who managed to challenge all the Olympian ladies and won her match against Christine Namaganda in the final round of the championship to get to second place and Namaganda finished in fourth place.
While Robert was in the United States he was able to catch up with friends, update us all on the latest happenings on the chess academy and the students, but there was so much to share we thought we would just let him tell you himself!
What a crazy few months it has been for Robert and Phiona with the filming of Queen of Katwe and their extra time needed there to the growth of the chess program in Uganda and Kenya and the nearing completion of the future Chess Academy and Mentoring Center!!
It's all so exciting, so we will just get to it: We will start with the movie filming, since I know that naturally stirs instant jitters in all of us! Coach Robert picked six children from the program to escort him and they were all able to enter the US Embassy and meet with the Ambassador.
