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ESPN the Magazine NEXT - Meet chess progidy Phiona Mutesi - ESPN: "Game of her life
For 14-year-old chess progidy Phiona Mutesi, chess is a lifeline

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By Tim Crothers
ESPN The Magazine
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Stephanie SinclairShe's 14, lives in the slums of Uganda and is just now learning to read. But Phiona Mutesi's instincts have made her a player to watch in international chess.

This story appears in the January 10, 2011, issue of ESPN The Magazine.

SHE FLIES TO Siberia in late September with nine teammates, all in their 20s, much older than she is. When she won the match that put her on this plane she had no idea what it meant. Nobody had told her what was at stake, so she just played, like always. She had no idea that she'd qualified for the Olympiad; no idea what the Olympiad was. She had no idea that her win would send her to the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, in remote Russia; no idea where Russia was. When she learned all this, she asked just one question: 'Is it cold there?'

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