Phiona Mutesi Net Worth 2025

What is Phiona Mutesi net worth?

Phiona Mutesi  is a Ugandan chess player. She is one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history.

Phiona is often considered the queen of chess in Africa.

In this article, we will be bringing to you Phiona Mutesi net worth and her profile

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Profile

Mutesi was born and grew up in the neighbourhood of Katwe, the largest of Kampala’s eight slums. When she was roughly three years old, her father died of AIDS. Her older sister, Julia, subsequently died of unknown causes. At age nine, Mutesi dropped out of school because her family could no longer afford to send her.

Phiona Mutesi Net Worth

Chess career

In 2010, Mutesi played six rounds on board two and one round on board one for Uganda at the women’s event of the 39th Chess Olympiad, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. She scored one-and-a-half points from the seven games she played.

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In 2012, Mutesi and Ivy Amoko were awarded the title of Woman Candidate Master after scoring the required 50% from nine games at the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. This made them the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history. The same year she became the first female player to win the open category of the National Junior Chess Championship in Uganda.

n 2013, she again played in the National Junior Chess Championship in Uganda and reached the finals against Lutaaya Shafiq of Makerere University. She won the under-20 girls category but not the open category

She joined Northwest University’s chess team in competing at the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in Columbus, Ohio, in December 2017. The team won the title of “Top Small College” for Northwest University, taking it from the title holders of four consecutive years, Oberlin College. Mutesi won three matches and drew one, playing on Board 2.

Phiona Mutesi Net Worth

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