{"id":4571,"date":"2018-01-12T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2018-01-12T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:15:56","slug":"phiona-muteesi-leads-her-university-to-chess-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/phiona-muteesi-leads-her-university-to-chess-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Phiona Mutesi leads Her University to Chess Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Phiona Mutesi, it is in the blood. Not even fame can take away the fact that she is a chess champion. She is referred to as the “College Chess Star” at her University, NorthWest. Towards the end of last year, she led her Chess Team into winning a trophy in the Top Small College Team category.<\/p>\n

Phiona Mutesi, whose life story was behind the Disney movie, “Queen of Katwe” is just a first year at American, NorthWest University. She has however already managed to turn heads, together with her colleague, and fellow freshman,\u00a0 Ben Mukumbya.<\/p>\n

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The trophie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A tweet from Deborah Malac, US Ambassador to Uganda indicates that indeed this champion has made the country proud. She wrote;<\/p>\n

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“Congratulations to Phiona Mutesi, the star of “Queen of #<\/span>Katwe<\/span><\/a>,” for helping lead her Northwest University #<\/span>Chess<\/span><\/a> Team to victory in Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championships! Great to see young #<\/span>Ugandan<\/span><\/a>#<\/span>women<\/span><\/a> succeeding! @<\/span>northwestu<\/span><\/a> “<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
TEAMS NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY BEAT TO WIN<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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From our sources, we learn that Phiona’s University managed to get the trophy with a 4-0 win against previous champion, Oberlin College. The later had won the said trophy for the\u00a0 previous four years.\u00a0 The University had played other teams to win the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championships. Some of these are; Columbia University, Arizona State University, Tecnol\u00f3gico Nacional de M\u00e9xico, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Oberlin College, and University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. They finally emerged successful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Once a star, always a star.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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