Do you know the fairy tale of the 'chess queen'?

In the footsteps of dreams, of those so fantastic that they seem impossible, of those that could completely change your life perspective, of those that if ... if you believe in it with all of yourself you can really change your life perspective, and also that of your family and your people.

The story was chosen by Disney in 2016, which told in a film the "fabulous", in the literal sense of the term, the story of Phiona Mutesi, nicknamed and become famous in the world as the Queen of Katwe, her little town / slum in heart of Uganda. Chess Queen.

Phiona started to "play this game" for "necessity": simply with a victory she was entitled to one more meal. And for his younger brother the extra meal was even more necessary. His master noticed his talent and proposed his candidacy to get her to participate in the Chess Olympics in Siberia. From this country very distant and different from the slum where she grew up, both as a climate and as a civilization, her "new life" began. The chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, very attentive to "female" chess, gave her the first chess book that Phiona read in the night and started winning her first games the next morning.

The story has become a book (The Queen of Katwe) and then a film "Queen of Katwe" where professional and non-professional actors are at work, as the Indian director Mira Nair likes to do, who for 25 years now lives in Uganda.

The protagonist of the film, Madina Nalwangav, in fact lived as Phiona in absolute poverty. Phiona's mother is played by Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o instead. Truly a beautiful story where the protagonists are, needless to say, just chess.

The fable seems to repeat itself today: like Phiona, the new little Tani, a Nigerian refugee still without a residence permit, lives with his family in a homeless shelter in Manhattan. He already has already won some school championships, the State Championship he won without losing a game, and the last of his 7 trophies, the highest of him, earned himself in the tournament for children up to 8 years of the State of New York.

It could be just Tani the protagonist of the next Disney movie on the chess fable.