The 30th practical activity The theme

The 31^th practical activity


The theme: Rustam Kasimjonov


Rustam Kasimjonov

Rustam Kasimjonov was born on December 5, 1979, in Tashkent. He is an Uzbek chess player and a grandmaster. He was the FIDE world champion

dur­ing 2004-2005.
Rustam Kasimjonov learnt to play chess at the age of 5. In 1994 he became the Asian champion at the Asian Junior Chess Championship. In 1997 he became a grandmaster and in 1998 he won the Asian Chess Cham­pionship. Later in 1999, he won the second place at the World Junior Chess Championship.
He continued his progress by winning the first places in the Tournaments at Essen 2001 and Pamplona 2002. How­ever, he achieved his sensational victory in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. He won the matches against Vasily Ivanchuk, Zoltan Almasi, Alexander Grischuk, Vaselin Topolov and met Michael Adams to play for the title. Later he was among top 10 chess players of the world.
Currently Rustam is living in Germany and is playing at the German National Championship for the chess-club of the city Bad Godesberg.
By the decree of the president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on July 14, 2004, Rustam Kasimjonov was awarded the "Amir Temur" order for his outstanding achievements in world chess.
He is the World and Asian Chess Champion, the winner of qualifying competitions of World Championships, Bronze medal winner of the World Chess Olympics, an Interna­tional Grandmaster and an Honoured Sportsman of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was awarded the "O'zbekiston belgisi" order.
Asian Championship 1994, Qatar (winner)
World Championship 1994, Hungary (bronze medal)
World Championship 1995, Brazil (bronze medal)
Asian Championship 1996, (prize winner)
Asian Championship 1998, Tehran (1st place)
World Championship 2004, Tripoli, Libya (1st place world champion)
Activity 1.
Find the best suitable title (1-5) for each paragraph (a-e).

1. “My first chess teacher”

2. “Personal effective learning strategies”
3. “Champion recommendations”
4. “A chess board - a battle field”
5. “Visual learner”

A. From my childhood my parents paid attention to my mental and physical development. They started to analyze what learning styles could probably help me to study better. As far as I know there are four of them: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and

tactile. I have always been a visual learner. Unless I see something I cannot remember it. From learning styles one can set learning strategies.
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B. When I was four I had already known all chess figures’ names and movements. My father taught me many secrets of them step by step. That is why I can tell that my first teacher was my father. Later on we began to play chess with my father for hours; it took much time when I won my father first. He had always claimed that a chess player should have a right, exact strategy, without it a player would surely lose the game. _____________________
C. My father was right, today as a professional chess player I understand that chess board is a battle field where two different enemy armies fight against each other. The general or the leader must have set a strategy to win over the enemy.

D You can ask me how I have become the world champion several times in chess game. My answer will be the following: I have always tried to use my own learning strategies effectively after the game, a concrete game strategy during struggle on a board. I was taught to organize or plan my movements on the board beforehand. After the game I used to evaluate, and give feed back to my own actions in the game.

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E A learner without learning strategies looks like a warrior with no arm or weapon or sword in a battle field. That is why I recommend all, youth exactly, to find out right learning strategies and never step back! Go further and realize your dreams!