Semester One
News & Announcements Archives
Saturday
July 25, 2009
4 Top Prizes for NYPS @ Toa Payoh Rapid Chess
(Primary Schools) 2009 & Other Good News
12 NYPS pupils took part in Toa Payoh's International Chess - Primary School Rapid 2009 on 25 July. The final standings reveal excellent news: Wu Muyu won the top prize (Boys-U12); William Guo won the 1st prize (Boys-U10); Chew Jed Jia Ming finished 1st and Yue Shi Quan Sean took 3rd (Boys-U8); Sheryl Lynn Tan finished 1st and her twin sister Shae Lynn finished 2nd (Girls-U7). In addition to these top prizes: Sze Shao Hong finished 5th (Boys-U9); Johnathan Wu finished 4th and Samuel Tan finished 5th (Boys-U8); Cham Rui Yan Ryan earned a consolation prize (Boys-U7).
Congratulations to all our NYPS pupils for another well-done job! We also thank Mdm. Lim Peck Hoon Cynthia for her great assistance during the event.
Final standings & a pictorial can be accessed here soon.
Monday
July 20, 2009
NYPS Chess Club Celebrates Racial Harmony Day
NYPS Chess Club celebrates Racial Harmony Day, a very special day for all Singaporeans. "On this day in 1964, Singapore saw racial riots. Racial Harmony Day serves to remind our pupils that social division costs us dearly and that race and religion are potential fault-lines in Singapore society", MOE-supported RHD website notes. "It is a day for schools to reflect on, and celebrate our success as a harmonious nation and society built on a rich diversity of cultures and heritages."
The game of chess encourages tolerance and a better understanding of our differences. It does bring people of various backgrounds, races and religions together.
Monday
July 13, 2009
On July 12, 2009, a group of NYPS pupils hungry for further practice took part in Ho Peng Kee Chess Challenge Cup (organised by Nee Soon East CC & SCF). At the end of 7 rounds, our young players finished very well in a field of 200 players: Isaak Ethan Soh took the first trophy in U12 (he also finished 9th in the overall standings); Michelle Ho took the first prize for best female player and best U12-Girls (she also finished 11th overall); Sean Masci finished 4th in U10; Joanne Chan finished second in U10-Girls; Samuel Tan finished 5th in U8; Shae Lynn Tan finished 3rd in U8-Girls; Krystal Soh finished 4th in the same category;
On top of these prizes, Olimpiu G. Urcan, NYPS staff representing NYPS Chess Club, won the first prize securing the Ho Peng Kee Chess Challenge Cup for NYPS Chess Club for the year of 2009. Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs and the donor of the yearly Chess Challenge Cup, awarded the prizes.
Tuesday
June 30, 2009
Nicholas Ang (4A) won the "My Best NYPS Chess Memory" - Essay Competition. Nicholas was awarded with Bobby Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games signed by Mdm Principal Boey Hong Heng.
Here is Nicholas' essay.
Sunday
June 28, 2009
NYPS pupils who took part in the National Blitz Chess Championships 2009 on 27 June 2009 played good (and fast!) chess. NYPS Chess Club President Wu Muyu won the Silver Trophy in overall results but also the Gold Trophy for U12 category with 8 pts (out of 9 games). Nicholas Ang finished 10th in the final standings but also earned the Gold in U10 category (7 pts). Michelle Ho (7 pts) finished 12th but took the Gold Trophy as the top girl and first in Girls U12. Chew Jia Ming Jed (6 pts) took the Bronze for finishing 3rd in U8 category. Tan Sheryl Lynn (5 pts) took the Silver for Girls U8 and Tan Shae Lynn (5 pts) took the Bronze in the same age category.
Congratualtions to all winners and competitors!
Full results can be found here.
The video provided above first appeared
on SCF's website and on YouTube.com
Tuesday
June 2, 2009
Singapore Schools (South Zone) Chess Carnival was held at Kheng Cheng School on 1st June. 13 NYPS pupils chose to play even if NYPS is not in the South Zone. It was a good training opportunity and NYPS pupils did well: Shae Lynn Tan & Sheryl Lynn Tan finished 4th and 5th in Girls U8, followed by Elizabeth Fam (6th) and Gerlyn Wong (8th);Victoria Fam finished 2nd in Girls Open (!), and Jed Chew Jia Ming - 2nd in Boys U8.
thanks to our great supportive parents.
Wednesday
May 27, 2009
Among the 23 players representing Singapore at the 10th ASEAN Age+ Group Championships 2009 (Hue City - Vietnam, 5-16 June 2009), 5 of them are NYPS students. We wish them all the best!
Updated: Final Results
NYPS Chess Library
NYPS teachers-in-charge (CHESS) have started to put together a chess library (chess books & magazines). The NYPS Chess Club members are welcome to contact us in order to borrow some of these materials on a library-regime basis. In a few weeks, we'll make available a title database for easier browsing.
Tuesday
May 26, 2009
WFM Jeslin Tay, who was recently a guest of NYPS Chess Club, became the first lady in the Singapore chess to achieve a Woman International Master norm. Jeslin achieved the feat during her play in Asian Women's Championships (Subic Bay, Philippines, 12-24 May 2009). NYPS Chess Club congratulates Jeslin!
Wednesday
May 13, 2009
"My Best NYPS Chess Memory":
Chess Essay Competition
NYPS Chess Club announces a Chess Essay Competition with the theme "My Best NYPS Chess Memory". The essay should be max 500 words length and should be sumitted via email or hard-copy to the teachers-in-charge. The winner of the competition will be rewarded with a copy of Bobby Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (Batsford Chess, 2008 Edition).
Deadline for submission: 25 June 2009. Winners will be announced on 5 July.
Monday
May 4
Nanyang's Nathan Mar finished 10th in the recently concluded SCF Rating - May Day Tournament. Nathan also finished 1st in Open U8 Category, with 4.5 pts out of 6 rounds. An excellent effort by our NYPS student. Congratulations, Nathan!
Click here for full final results.
Saturday
April 18, 2009
Club Intchess announced a simultaneous exhibition to be given by Antoaneta Stefanova, former Women World Champion, at Civil Service Club @ Tessensohn Road on April 26, 2009. The NYPS pupils interested to apply for participation may find the details and registration form on the organizer's website.
Friday
April 3, 2009
NYPS Chess Club supports the celebration of the IFD with a Chess & Art Contest. The contest is open to all NYPS pupils and the deadline for submission of the artwork is 16 April.
More details here.
Friendly Inter-School Matches
In the true spirit of the International Friendship Day, NYPS proposes friendly team chess matches with other Singapore schools throughout 2009. The school officials interested should contact us to organize the details.
Illustration: "Echecs" by Etienne Leroux
Monday
March 30, 2009
Nanyang Primary sent 6 teams to play in the PS Schools Invitational Chess Competition 2009 held at Civil Service Club (28-29 March 2009). NYPS teams won the Gold medals in Open U12, Open U10 and Girls U12 categories, leaving behind strong competitors like Northland Primary or Anglo-Chinese schools.
Friday
March 27, 2009
Woman FIDE Master Liu Yang - four-time National Women's Chess Champion, multiple SEA Games medalist and Olympic team member - has visited NYPS Chess Club for a simultaneous exhibition given to our strongest girls on March 27. Liu Yang played simultaneously against 7 NYPS girls and scored 7-0. In the second half of the session, more NYPS girls joined the analysis, debates and were very receptive at Liu Yang's instructive insights and comments. Here are some photographs taken during the event.
NYPS thanks Liu Yang & Jeslin Tay for their effort to inspire our girls, share with them the secrets of the game and prove to them that chess is not exactly only a sport for boys.
Thursday
March 26, 2009
Lim Xiao Hui (Class 3D) won the Total Chess Defence
Quiz (March Holidays) 2009. Her essay was highly praised by our school leaders. Lim Xiao Hui was commended in front of the morning assembly. Our Vice-Principal (Administration) Mr. Loh Yuh Por rewarded her with a copy of M. Marin's Secrets of Chess Defence signed by Mdm Principal Heng Boey Hong.
Congratulations to Lim Xiao Hui!
Former Women's National Chess Champion, Woman FIDE Master Jeslin Tay offered a simultaneous chess exhibition at 10 boards on Thursday,
26 March (Room 5A).
She played simultaneously against some of the girls forming the 3 teams heading to play in Public Service (School Invitational) Chess Competition 2009.
WFM Jeslin Tay represented Singapore at the 22nd and 23rd SEA Games and was a Bronze medalist at the 22nd SEA Games (Rapid Chess). She also played in the Singapore Men's Olympic Team at 37th Chess Olympiad
held in Turin (Italy) in 2006. Jeslin was National Women's Chess Champion in 2004 and 2006.
Jeslin scored in all games (10-0) and had a fruitful dialogue about chess with our NYPS girls. Photographs can be viewed in our image gallery.
Tuesday
March 24, 2009
30 NYPS pupils were selected to form 6 teams playing in this event. Due to the unavailability of some players to participate in the event, some names have changed. Download the list and the
The result of the playoffs for U10 team may be found here.
Tuesday
March 24, 2009
30 NYPS pupils were selected to form 6 teams playing in this event. Due to the unavailability of some players to participate in the event, some names have changed. Download the list and the
The result of the playoffs for U10 team may be found here.
Wednesday
March 18, 2009
The 61st NSICC just concluded. NYPS sent the largest number of players (107). Good news for Nanyang Primary: Krystal Soh (Girls U7) won the Gold, Yuan Wei Ting (Girls U13) and Rachel Soh (Girls U11) won the Silver. Isaak Soh, Derek Lim, and Nicholas Ang (all in Open U11) tied for the 2nd-4th positions. After tie-breaks, Isaak took the Silver and Derek brought home the Bronze. Nathan Mar (Open U9) also won the Bronze. Many other NYPS students finished top 10 and collected trophies and medals of merit.
Overall statistics indicate that NYPS won more medals than any of the 145 schools that joined this competition. Congratulations to all NYPS participants!
Here is a tournament report.
Photos can be viewed in our image gallery.
Tuesday
March 10, 2009
Chess (CCA) Thursday is ON
Please be advised that the chess lessons on Thursday, 12 March, are on as usual (2-4pm). The lessons on Friday, 13 March are cancelled due to Aqua Fiesta 2009.
Monday
March 9, 2009
NYPS is leading
NYPS set a remarkable record with respect to the sent entries to 61st NSICC: Nanyang Primary School will be represented by 107 chess pupils! None of the other schools even come close to this number of registered players. We wish good luck to all NYPS participants in this year's National Schools Individuals Chess Championships.
Singapore Chess Federation posted an announcement congratulating NYPS for the chess work done in our school. Full message can be seen here.
The training dates for Term 2 are posted in the NYPS Chess Club section.
Thursday
March 5, 2009
NO CHESS (CCA) for Thu (5 March)
and Fri (6 March)
Please be informed that the Chess (CCA) classes
for Thu (5 March) and Fri (6 March) have been cancelled. We apologize for the late notice.
The 87 NYPS pupils sponsored by the school for this
event are advised to check their particulars on the
SCF's website - where a starting list has been posted.
Tuesday
March 3, 2009
Total Defence Chess & Earn Chess Miles!
NYPS Chess Club announces two more online contests available for our chess club members or for the mind-sports fans in NYPS: Total Defence Chess and
Thursday
Feb 26, 2009
Welcome to NYPS!
NYPS Chess Club wishes to extend a very warm welcome to Derek Lim (Class 4J). Derek recently transferred to NYPS from ACS(J) through the GEP programme.
Besides being the defending U-9 National Chess
Champion and the U-10 National Age-Group Chess Champion, Derek made a historic mark back in 2006
when he won the 2nd World Schools Chess Championship (Greece, U-7), being crowned as the first Singapore
world chess champion!
Tuesday
Feb 24, 2009
Sponsorship for 61st NSICC 2009
(National Schools Individual Chess Championships):
Names Announced
UPDATE (27 Feb):
NYPS has completed the registration with SCF for this event for all 87 players who applied for sponsorship.
The application for school sponsorship for this event is
now closed. Please find in this list the
names of the NYPS chess players who successfully
applied online and are already registered by school.
Milestones of NYPS Chess Club
In Feb 2009, NYPS CC celebrates 8 years of existence. Have a look at the club's chess accolades over years.
Monday
Feb 23, 2009
Public Service Schools Invitational 2009
Important news for our chess club members:
a) Find here a letter of invitation for selection
with important information
b) The following NYPS players are invited
to participate in the trials for selection of teams
c) the players in the list above are required to
complete this reply form and hand it over to the teachers-in-charge the soonest.
There will be two preliminary selection meetings:
Feb 26, Thursday, 2 - 4 pm (Room 5B)
Feb 27, Friday, 2 - 4 pm (Room 3C)
Only the listed players are requested to attend. For the rest of the NYPS chess (CCA) students the normal chess lessons continue as usual.
Sunday
Feb 22, 2009
Singapore's national chess champions: what do they
think about Nanyang Primary Chess Club?
Find out here.
Thursday
Feb 19, 2009
61th National Schools Individuals Chess Championship
1. The list with selected NYPS students to
be sponsored by the school for this event
will be posted on Monday, Feb 23. Please note that
the deadline for submitting the application has been changed to Monday, Feb 23.
2. The parents who will sign up their children for this event on private basis (without school's sponsorship
of the registration fee) are kindly
asked to get in touch with us in order to arrange
for the delivery of the special school t-shirt.
3. Parents are also asked to take note that
the school will not provide transportation or meal arrangements for this competition.
Monday
Feb 16, 2009:
NYPS pupils are advised to download the basic guidelines for using the chess corner.
Friday
Feb 13, 2009:
UPDATE (24.02.2009):
APPLICATION FOR SPONSORSHIP
IS NOW CLOSED
NYPS offers limited sponsorship for participants in the 61th National Schools Individual Chess
Find here the school's criteria for selection.
Wednesday
Feb 11, 2009:
Criteria for selection of NYPS
chess teams (2009) to be found here
Tuesday
Feb 10, 2009:
New Groups for Thu and Fri
Chess (CCA) Classes
Following the preliminary assessment conducted by chess trainers last week (5 & 6 Feb) the chess pupils have
been regrouped according to their level.
Please check here to find out in which class you belong
for this week's lessons (12 & 13 Feb).
Monday
Feb 10, 2009:
1144 chess books at NLB!
The database of the National Library on
Victoria Street reveals no less than 1144 chess books.
Sunday
Feb 9, 2009:
Welcome to the official website of the
NYPS Chess Club! Starting with Feb 10, 2009
here you'll find the essential information regarding the chess activities in
Nanyang Primary School.
For essential information & announcements that have
been made between 1 January and 2 February 2009,
please refer to the following blog.
For an overview of the chess activities in NYPS during 2007, you may wish to visit this blog.
