Nick Aplin (born 7 March 1952) is a
Senior Lecturer
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at the Physical Education and Sports Science Academic Group (PESS) at the
National Institute of Education
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(NIE).
In 1971 he studied at
Loughborough College
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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