Nick Aplin
{{Short description|Singaporean lecturer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
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 (NIE).
In 1971 he studied at Loughborough College 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.{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310202147/www.nie.edu.sg/profile/nicholas-giles-aplin|title=Nicholas Giles Aplin {{!}} National Institute of Education, Singapore (NIE), archived at 2018-03-10|website=www.nie.edu.sg|access-date=2016-04-28}}
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 Guardian{{'}}s Chess Book of the Year in 2007.{{cite news|last=Bennett|first=Ronan|author2=Daniel King|title=Chess: Erenburg-Banusz, Budapest 2004. White to play|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/sep/01/chess|accessdate=12 April 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 September 2008}}{{cite news|last=Kavalek|first=Lubomir|title=Chess|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010400973.html|accessdate=12 April 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=4 January 2010}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book
|author=Aplin, Nick
|title=To The Finishing Line
|year=2002
|publisher=Singapore National Printers
|ISBN= 981-248-000-5}}
- {{cite book
| author=Aplin, Nick
|author2=Waters, David |author3=Wee-Leong May Lai
| title=Singapore Olympians: The Complete Who's Who 1936–2004
| year=2005
| publisher=Singapore National Olympic Council
| ISBN= 978-981-248-072-9}}
- {{cite book
| author=Károlyi, Tibor
| author-link=Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
|author2=Aplin, Nick
| title=Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1993–1998
| year=2007
| publisher=Batsford
| ISBN= 978-0-7134-8994-1}}
- {{cite book
| author=Károlyi, Tibor
| author-link=Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
|author2=Aplin, Nick
| title=Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1999–2005
| year=2007
| publisher=Batsford
| ISBN= 978-0-7134-8984-2}}
- {{cite book
| author=Károlyi, Tibor
| author-link=Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
|author2=Aplin, Nick
| title=Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov
| year=2007
| publisher=New In Chess
| ISBN= 978-90-5691-202-4}}
- {{cite book
| author=Károlyi, Tibor
| author-link=Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
|author2=Aplin, Nick
| title=Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess
| year=2009
| publisher=Batsford
| ISBN= 978-1-906388-26-3}}
- {{cite book
|editor=Aplin, Nick
|title=Perspectives on Physical Education and Sports Science in Singapore: an Eye on the Youth Olympics 2010
|year=2009
|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education
|isbn=978-007-128164-5}}
- {{cite book
|author=Károlyi, Tibor
|author-link=Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
|author2=Aplin, Nick
|title=Genius in the Background
|year=2009
|publisher=Quality Chess
|ISBN= 978-1-906552-37-4}}
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Category:Singaporean non-fiction writers