Nick Aplin (born 7 March 1952) is a
Senior Lecturer at the Physical Education and Sports Science Academic Group (PESS) at the
National Institute of Education
The National Institute of Education (NIE) is an autonomous institute of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Ranked 10th in the world and 2nd in Asia by the QS World University Rankings in the subject of Education and Trainin ...
(NIE).
In 1971 he studied at
Loughborough College
Overview
Loughborough College is a large general further education college in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It provides both further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses on a single campus. The colleg ...
for his degree in physical education (PE). He graduated in 1976.
In 1984 Nick Aplin studied a master's degree at Loughborough. In late 1985 he became a lecturer at the College of Physical Education in SIngapore. He completed a PhD in 1999.
Nick Aplin's first book, ''To the Finishing Line'', was published in 2002. It was a set of biographical impressions of the first three Singaporean women Olympians: Tang Pui Wah, Mary Klass and Janet Jesudason. In 2009 he published ''Perspectives on Physical Education and Sports Science in Singapore.'' Alongside
Tibor Károlyi, Aplin wrote a series of chess books. ''Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov'' was ''
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''s Chess Book of the Year in 2007.
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1952 births
Living people
Chess writers
Singaporean non-fiction writers
British expatriates in Singapore
People educated at Poole Grammar School