A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
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Taglines: One girl's triumphant path to becoming a chess champion.
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for thematic elements, an accident scene and some suggestive material | See all certifications »
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Official Sites: ,Official Site
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 30 September 2016 (USA) See more »
Also Known As: ,Rainha de Katwe See more »
Filming Locations: ,Kampala, Uganda See more »
Box Office
Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $304,933 (USA) (23 September 2016)
Gross: $5,661,380 (USA) (10 October 2016)
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Company Credits
Production Co: ESPN Films, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Productions See more »
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Technical Specs
Runtime: 124 min
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Color: Color
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At the end of the film, the actors appear with the real life people that they played. See more »
Connections
Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Margot Robbie/The Weeknd (2016) See more »
Soundtracks
Kiwani
by Bobi Wine
(p) 2016 Walt Disney Records
RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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This story is mostly false!
25 September 2016 | by jrb19690 – See all my reviews
Chess grandmasters tell The Daily Caller News Foundation her chess performance is no better than an average club player, and that the award is essentially little more than symbolism.
As one grandmaster noted bluntly, "Let me not mince words: by a purely objective standard, Phiona is not a strong chess player; she is equivalent to a weak-to-average club player (class C or B in the U.S.)."
By 2012, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) awarded Mutesi the WCM, the lowest-ranked title, following her performance in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Normally, the WCM title requires that recipients reach—at least once in their career—a rating of 2000, according to the FIDE title handbook.
Her Elo rating at the time was 1686, a massive gap from the required 2000, but it seems as though FIDE officials granted her the title based on her performance at Istanbul.
