‘I saw the world because of chess. Now I want children to get the same chance’

Young but thoughtful-looking boys and girls are sitting in a small, basic classroom filled with desks and chessboards in Malawi’s capital.

Ms Namangale grew up in Malawi’s rural central district of Nkhotakota and was introduced to chess aged nine by her older sister, who was in secondary school. Now a former president for the4.5, the 47-year-old aims to use her personal experience and skills to promote the game from the grassroots all the way to prisons and rural schools where opportunities are hard to come by.

She hopes to pass her exams to get into secondary school. “Then start working and be able to support my parents and others in need,” she explained in a video clip shared on X.“You have possibilities of becoming smart and it expands your brain to become smarter. Sometimes you can lose but you don’t give up,” he says.

“Before, people thought chess was for the elite and that you can’t have a kid in the village playing chess but now they are playing,” says Ms Namangale. “Chess for me is everything… it made me face the world… it made me confident and believing in myself, it made me resilient and to face problems with solutions, it made me have friends all over the world,” she says.“I travel a lot because of chess, I go to many tournaments, and I’ve been to all continents in the world not because of myand my work, no, it’s because of chess. That’s why I keep saying chess can unlock potential – it unlocked mine.

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