Queen of Katwe

paulwise3 · Post by **paulwise3** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:45 am

There is another chess movie coming up! To be release 2nd half of september. See http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Katwe.

Hope it will soon be released in Europe too!

Regards, Paul

Post by **Fernando** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:31 pm

paulwise3 wrote:There is another chess movie coming up! To be release 2nd half of september. See http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Katwe.

Hope it will soon be released in Europe too!

Regards, Paul

Hope it will be not one of those flick where the hero or heroin look at a board and see a mate in two moves that the GM did not see....

paulwise3 · Post by **paulwise3** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 7:57 pm

Hi Fern,

No, this is a movie based on the book with the same name.
And that book tells the story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda, who is now the women chess champion of Uganda.
See also the Chesshouse blog: http://blog.chesshouse.com/queen-of-kat ... 02eecd96df

Guess you wanted it to be a chilean girl regards,
Paul

Post by **Fernando** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 8:54 pm

paulwise3 wrote:Hi Fern,

No, this is a movie based on the book with the same name.
And that book tells the story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda, who is now the women chess champion of Uganda.
See also the Chesshouse blog: http://blog.chesshouse.com/queen-of-kat ... 02eecd96df

Guess you wanted it to be a chilean girl regards,
Paul

I wonder how much good you must be to be champion in Uganda
1400 Elo?

Post by **Fernando** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:20 pm

Fernando wrote:
paulwise3 wrote:Hi Fern,

No, this is a movie based on the book with the same name.
And that book tells the story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda, who is now the women chess champion of Uganda.
See also the Chesshouse blog: http://blog.chesshouse.com/queen-of-kat ... 02eecd96df

Guess you wanted it to be a chilean girl regards,
Paul
I wonder how much good you must be to be champion in Uganda
1400 Elo?

Do not take my previous post as a mark of disrespect for Uganda, I am just making use of a lyrical turn of phrase. Uganda is not a country we know as a source of chess players, less in the realm of females, which are less interested in chess than men in any country of the world.

paulwise3 · Post by **paulwise3** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 6:18 am

If you would just read a little more, you would have found that she scored a women candidate master result in the international chess olympics that just ended a few days ago.

Post by **Fernando** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 3:46 pm

paulwise3 wrote:If you would just read a little more, you would have found that she scored a women candidate master result in the international chess olympics that just ended a few days ago.

so she is around 2200?
Not that bad...

franco88 · Post by **franco88** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:53 am

WCM Mutesi Phiona played fourth board for Uganda and has an ELO rating of 1622.

paulwise3 · Post by **paulwise3** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:23 am

franco88 wrote:WCM Mutesi Phiona played fourth board for Uganda and has an ELO rating of 1622.

Ok! I think now of becoming a transgender, maybe I can become a master too

I read she scored 50%: +3, =3 and -3.
So I guess her rating will become higher.

pr1uk · Post by **pr1uk** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:33 am

There is a documentary on her life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hUDehZ ... freload=10

paulwise3 · Post by **paulwise3** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:59 am

pr1uk wrote:There is a documentary on her life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hUDehZ ... freload=10

Thank you!

Regards, Paul

Post by **Steve B** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:45 pm

This Months Chess Life (Sept. 2016)has a 2 page article on the movie

Katwe Regards
Steve

Cyberchess · Post by **Cyberchess** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:55 pm

Just thought I'd post the FIDE requirements for each of the FIDE Women's Titles below. It should be noted that GM Judit Polgar feels that these titles are demeaning to women, never competed in a women's tournament, and there is a movement spearheaded by Barbara Jepson to eliminate these titles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titl ... 27s_titles

Keep 'em Barefoot, Pregnant, and FIDE Titled Regards,
John

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