Cibele Florêncio was 9 when she started playing chess. Now a single mother and maid who sometimes spends 12 hours a day cleaning houses, she was crowned vice-champion at a national chess tournament last year.
Cibele Florêncio was just 24 when she wasin Brazil last year, no mean feat given she was spending up to 12 hours a day cleaning houses.from Brazil’s poor northeastern scrublands, Ms. Florêncio is competing at the highest level at what is still considered an elitist game in one of the world’s most unequal countries.she said of the other contenders at tournaments.She was 9 when she started playing.
, she turned to the owners of one of the houses she cleaned: Ana Lígia Medeiros and her husband, André Borges, an official at the agriculture ministry. Ms. Florêncio's community is separated from the neighboring private condominium in which she workedin which players typically have three minutes to finish the game.Ms. Medeiros called her cousin, a radio host, whoIt was three days before Christmas and two days before Ms. Florêncio needed to be on the way to Poland.
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