Feature: Zim’s young chess queens checkmate early marriages, poverty

While the international chess community reels from a major cheating row, in a bare classroom in a small rural town in Zimbabwe, Grace Zvarebwa (10) sits on an upturned bucket, crouched over a board made of card, pondering her next move.

Moments later, she checkmates her opponent’s king to win the match.

Grace is training for a pan-African schools’ chess tournament in Liberia, where she hopes to represent her club, the Queens of Chivhu.

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