Queen assassinates King
Phiona Mutesi, the ‘Queen of Katwe’ featured on BBC2 yesterday, played this game in the 2012 Olympiad:
There’s a little bio of Phiona at ChessGames https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=127569
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