【Qingdao News Network Exclusive】
Reporter/Liu Wenchao
Every Wednesday at 10 a.m., Mr. Bu arrives on time for a "date" — an appointment with dozens of kindergarten children to teach them chess for free.
This Bu Xiangzhi is the famous and well-known chess grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi at home and abroad. As a celebrity from Qingdao, he has shifted his energy more from the arena to the training ground in recent years, cultivating rookies of national elephants and discovering seedlings.
Online games provide new ideas for popularizing national elephants
Time back to the 29th of last month, the island city chess industry ushered in a major event, the "C5" plan separately listed in the city chess elite tournament in Qingdao, which is a high-level exchange representing the domestic chess sport, but also a boutique activity of Qingdao 'open sports'.
Affected by the epidemic prevention and control this year, the originally planned offline matches will be changed to online, and the participating chess players in various cities will gather their teams to a fixed venue and carry out the competition through the zhisai network platform, and the video of the game process will be transmitted to the live broadcast platform in real time to accept public supervision.
Due to the conflict of schedules, as the leader of chess players after the "80s", Bu Xiangzhi did not appear at the opening ceremony, but when the reporter connected with Bu Xiangzhi, he said that he was very concerned about the development of the national elephant cause in his hometown, and the successful holding of "C5" became an important event in the development of chess, especially in the form of online game competitions, which provided new ideas for the popularization and development of chess.
At the same time, the reporter learned that Bu Xiangzhi's national elephant training plan is "starting from the doll", and he has a fixed date with a group of children...
"Being the 'Child King' is a whole new challenge"
For his weekly "date," he would drive through the undersea tunnel and through a stretch of pandao highway to soon arrive at the kindergarten in Qingdao's West Coast New Area.
Located at the foot of Phoenix Island Mountain, this Ganshuiwan Kindergarten with "invincible sea view" is an integrated education kindergarten that combines general education and special education. As the image ambassador of Qingdao Fusion Education Development Center and the love ambassador of Xiaocao Foundation, every Wednesday morning, Bu Xiangzhi and his team come here to teach chess for free.
"Bu Xiangzhi has come to our kindergarten to teach chess!" His arrival caused a sensation among the parents of kindergarten children.
In the 10th Men's World Cup team competition in 2015, the Chinese men's team won the World Cup for the first time, and Bu Xiangzhi, together with the Chinese team, created history with an unbeaten record
Don't see that at the age of 14, he became the youngest chess grandmaster at that time, and now he is the head coach of the Shandong National Elephant Team, giving public welfare lessons to kindergarten children, Bu Xiangzhi is still the first time. This "Qingdao brother" with extremely rich teaching experience admits that teaching kindergarten children to play chess is indeed a new challenge. "My main job now is to cultivate new chess players, and to popularize kindergarten children is also a new exploration and attempt, especially for special education children." I myself have benefited from chess all my life, and I am willing to do this and hope to do more for education in the future. Bu Xiangzhi said.
"Life is like chess, chess is like life", if Bu Xiangzhi when he was a player played a game of fast chess, cut through thorns and thorns, bravely climbed the peak, the goal is only to win the victory, then now Bu Xiangzhi's identity has long been from a professional chess player, quietly transformed into a coach, a teacher. At this stage, the 35-year-old Bu Xiangzhi is running another game of slow chess in his life, how to cultivate more outstanding chess world champions for Qingdao and even Shandong through his own cultivation, is his main task at this stage, and cultivating kindergarten children's interest in chess is a new attempt for him.
"It is very suitable for learning the national elephant at the kindergarten stage"
When the reporter came to the classroom, the students were learning the use of horses and cars under the leadership of assistant teacher Sun Chao. Although many times the children's attention is not on the teacher, when it comes to how to eat through different routes, the children are immediately interested. Every time he saw such a move, Bu Xiangzhi would also feel happy from the bottom of his heart.
"I became interested in national elephants when I was six years old, and it was also my grandfather and my cousin who were in the national elephants at that time, which attracted me at once. In fact, contact with the national elephant, the age of the kindergarten is very appropriate, considering that the children may not be able to sit still, we shorten the class time to 30-40 minutes, to tell them some of the historical origins and vivid stories of the national elephant, by telling some ways to eat, attract the attention of children, improve their interest. Bu Xiangzhi said.
The arrival of Grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi has greatly enriched the curriculum of kindergartens and provided a new direction for the development of integrated education. "Our original intention was to introduce some special projects to enrich the kindergarten curriculum. In the future, we also hope that preschool teachers can master the rules of the national elephant and become an important part of popularizing the national elephant, after all, Bu Xiangzhi was once a week, and after the teacher mastered the rules, he could complete a good interaction with the child on weekdays. Liu Yixuan, director of Ganshuiwan Kindergarten, said.
The results of the public welfare course are good
Bu Xiangzhi, who began to contact the national chess from the age of 6, won the men's 14-year-old group championship of the World Youth Chess Festival and the World Junior Children's Age Group Championship with an undefeated record of 7 wins and 4 draws, becoming the first young chess player in China to win the title of world chess championship; then he became the world's youngest chess grandmaster at the age of 13, 10 months and 3 days, and was known as the "prodigy" of the national chess.
After transforming into the head coach of the Shandong National Elephant Team, Bu Xiangzhi's time was not rich. Preparing for the National Games, fighting in the National Elephant League... Bu Xiangzhi's schedule was full. Why do you come to a kindergarten to open a national elephant public welfare course? Bu Xiangzhi also revealed his thoughts to reporters.
"Nowadays, parents will enroll their children in a lot of interest classes, and we also teach chess to students in school, but it is really difficult to balance between learning and learning chess." Bu Xiangzhi said, "In fact, the public welfare courses in kindergartens are more in the hope of sowing a seed of chess in the hearts of children, and also hope to let parents know more about what chess is, and learning chess will bring very positive significance to the cultivation of children's intelligence, endurance, concentration and logical thinking ability." ”
In addition, during the class, Bu Xiangzhi was pleasantly surprised to find that after the opening of the chess public welfare class, the preschool teacher responsible for taking care of the children mastered the rules of chess very quickly, and there were already two teachers who wanted their children to learn chess. "Many adults have always lacked an opportunity to learn about chess, and in the future, they hope that preschool teachers will become the disseminators of chess." Bu Xiangzhi said.
Promote a new model of "integrated education + chess"
On July 8, as the world champion of chess, Bu Xiangzhi was officially hired as the image ambassador of Qingdao Integrated Education Development Center. The reason why Ganshuiwan Kindergarten was chosen to teach national elephants is also because of its particularity. It is understood that Ganshuiwan Kindergarten has created a new model of integration of special education and general education in Qingdao. According to Tao Tao, director of the kindergarten office, the integration of special education and general education refers to the fact that children who receive special education, after professional assessment, arrange to attend classes with children of general education under the condition of meeting the basic ability performance conditions. Taking a chinese elephant class together is a very good opportunity for children to learn chess knowledge and also to move with other children to exercise their thinking and language skills.
As the image ambassador of Qingdao Integrated Education Development Center, Bu Xiangzhi also recognizes this. "Some children with autism have special talents and talents, and hope that their potential can be developed during the rehabilitation process, so that they can truly integrate into society." Bu Xiangzhi said.
It is worth mentioning that over the years, Bu Xiangzhi has been actively involved in the public welfare activities of funding young people, and he has also donated money and materials to the fund for many times as the love ambassador of Qingdao "Xiaocao Fund".
"Qingdao chess development is at the forefront of the country"
In the interview, Bu Xiangzhi also talked about the overall development of chess in Qingdao.
"The development of chess in Qingdao has been at the forefront of the country, and the best marketization at this stage is Go, but on the popularity rate, chess is quite high, but why are there fewer top-notch children?" Although many parents have realized that learning to play chess can benefit their children in learning, but there are fewer high-level games, less opportunities for children to progress, and it is difficult to harvest flashpoints. Bu Xiangzhi said frankly.
"In addition, there is also a lack of high-level teachers, and the fastest growth in my chess skills was when I went abroad to practice in that period, and I played against high-level people every day, and I gained a lot." Now look, the form of online game is very convenient and safe, I believe that in the future, the successful experience of the 'C5' plan separate city chess classic will be vigorously promoted and copied. "For the future development of chess in Qingdao, Bu Xiangzhi is full of confidence.