00:00When I became a woman Grandmaster I was very excited, happy and when I made it
00:06the top eight in the world in the Women's World Championship that was very
00:10unexpected but it was an incredible journey.
00:18I played against Koshlinskaya, Gunina and back then like former Women's World
00:23Champion, Tang Jong-Yi and I beat them all and I just lost to Joo Wenjin, current World
00:31Champion. So it was very exciting. I was back then young and I never saw such a big stage,
00:38it was the highest stage that you could hope for to compete with the greatest women's players in the
00:44world. My first achievement was I think Uzbekistan Girls Youth Championship under 10 years and when
00:52I played for the first time I made it to top 10 which was very unexpected for me because I didn't
00:58know, I didn't compete a lot or at all at this level by then and then I felt like oh it's something
01:06interesting and second time when I competed under the same age group I won the silver medal by losing
01:14only in tie breaks which is still heartbreaking but it showed me that I can do that and I just kept
01:21going and when I was 12 years old I got national master I made it to the higher league and that's
01:28how it all just started and when I was 16 I completed my WGM norms and become a women's current master.
01:38I'm very happy first of all to be back to Uzbekistan, to be back to participating under Uzbek flag.
01:45It has always been my honor and coming back to such an amazing environment where chess is appreciated,
01:54where chess is loved is incredibly amazing. I saw the opportunity, I saw the changes, I saw how the
02:02president supports the players, I saw how the president supports the country. Without him I think
02:09we wouldn't achieve, even young players wouldn't achieve such results. Recently he personally gave
02:14me a medal called Kelecek Minotkar which is the builder of the future. When I received the medal
02:20from our president I felt huge honor. I was like oh my god like I cannot believe this is happening. He
02:30trusts us, our government, our country trusts us in ways no one did before. I was definitely honored at the
02:37same time I felt the responsibility behind it because if people of your nation, president of your
02:44nation is trusting you so you have to do things because especially as a cold medal builder of the
02:51future it means you have to show up. You have to show up not only for yourself not only for your nation
02:57it's just you have to show up for the younger generation you have to show them hey we can do that
03:04we could do that so you can.
03:08We have great young chess players both male and female and Abdusattar of Naderbeg made it the top 10
03:15in the world which is an incredible achievement and it takes a lot of work courage to get there so
03:22and also we have other like Sindarov and other very young players many many more grandmasters
03:29who are making chess like incredible for Uzbek people Uzbek players are at the work stage and
03:40Uzbek people follow Uzbek fans follow and also it creates all the atmosphere when you have strong
03:46young talents for Hungary to achieve a lot in their life it's a huge motivation for the whole fans whole country.
03:54I always say for young people when it comes to chess it's very important to be able to do the same
04:02thing any sports every day you have to have the discipline so I would say no matter what you do
04:08in your life have a discipline make sure you're doing your work don't be afraid of doing the hard
04:15thing do the right thing and never give up and I think you'll achieve everything you want. I really hope
04:20I can bring a lot of motivation under Uzbek women's chess team and we can do great things together.
04:27My future plans are honestly I want to get ready for the upcoming chess olympiad next year I will be
04:35competing for the Uzbek Sun women's team I'm very excited for our team I think we have great young
04:42players to play alongside with and at the same time I want to achieve grandmaster norms and the title
04:50eventually so I will work for it and definitely play some strong tournaments for it.
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