Life of a King

The unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future.

Brown discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and re-entry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working toward lives they never dreamed they were capable of. From his daring introductory chess lessons for a group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, this movie reveals Brown’s difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.