KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15. Nikita Pearl Waligwa died on Saturday at a hospital near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The cause was a brain tumor, according to the girls’ secondary school […]
Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson is a two-time World-Open speed chess champion and a #1 Amazon Best Selling Author of One Move At A Time, How To Win At Chess And Life who was brought on by Disney Studios to help promote the chess-oriented film, “Queen of Katwe,” starring Oscar award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o. He talks to the […]