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NSI 2016

Over a thousand chess players gathered at Pasir Ris Sports Hall to fight for top honours at this year's National Schools Individuals (NSI) 2016. Held over 4 days to avoid the logistic tussle, the tournament was well run by a small team of 12 arbiters and pairing officials. There were no major delays and what's  impressive was the A-C Div competition where the noise level was down to 60 db as compared to the Primary section (>90). Then again with 803 young school-children you can expect major noise issues but generally they were managable.

The rankings of my students:

LOWER JUNIOR GIRLS

2 
 Sun Shilian 

RGS Pr 8
18 Tan Xuan Ying 

CHIJ Toa Payoh 5
22 Lim Yen Jie Sophie  


 CHIJ Toa Payoh 5
25 
 Chan Yi Jin Elyse 

CHIJ Toa Payoh  4
26 Wu Dan Dan 

RGS Pr 4
27 Tong Rui Wen  Natalie


 CHIJ Toa Payoh 4
34 Grace Angelina Tjengal 

CHIJ Toa Payoh 4
39 
 Lim Patrina 

CHIJ Toa Payoh  3

JUNIOR BOYS  

Rank      Name                                               School                       Score

53 Chan Wen Hui Ryan 


ACS Pr 6
63 Lee I-Shiuo 

Rosyth Sch 6
75 Goh Caleb 

St Andrew's Jr 5.5
89 Lock Yan Jie 
St Andrew's Jr 5
90 Loh Zhang Yan Leonard 
ACS Jr 5
119 Ng Kai Zechariah  


St Andrew's Jr 5

JUNIOR GIRLS

5 Loh Wern Sea Cadence 

RGS Pr 7
14 Koh Wei Shi Isabel  


 RGS Pr 6
35 Chua Wan Lim Penelope 

RGS Pr 5
49 Yap Rui Ke 

RGS Pr 4
64 Chan Mi Mi Samantha 

RGS Pr 3.5

SENIOR BOYS

29 Chow Guo Quan Jovan 

St Andrew's Jr 6.5
30 Lee I-Shiang 

Rosyth Sch 6
44 Aadithya Kumar  


 St Andrew's Jr 6

SENIOR GIRLS

2 Cheong Sue Lyn  


 SCGS Pr  7.5
11 Ooi Zi Ern Shannon 

RGS Pr  6
16 Goh Dai Ting 

RGS Pr  5.5
32 
 Ang Xin Ying Faith  


 RGS Pr 4.5
33 Sonakshi Nag  


 RGS Pr 4.5
38 Ang Alexis Jaycee 

RGS Pr 4
44 Mak Wy-En  


 RGS Pr 4
45 Mok Rui Ying Caitlin 

RGS Pr 3.5
46 Lubna Maryam Shah 

RGS Pr 3.5
49 Ng Shi Han Joyce 

RGS Pr 3
54 Lee Sze Ern Vera 

RGS Pr 3
61 Ng Xuan Rui Felicia 

RGS Pr 1.5

C BOYS

5 
 Koh Ming Yao Gavin 

St Joseph's Inst 6.5
17    Chua Zhi Xiang Elson 

Victoria Sch 6
18 
 Tan Jun Yi Royce  


 Victoria Sch 5.5
24 Tan Zhiren Bradley 

Victoria Sch 5.5
34 Khew Yu Cheng Shaun 

Victoria Sch 5
40 Saw Sheng Jie Issac  


 Victoria Sch 5
66 Lam Kai Yoong 

Victoria Sch 3.5

B BOYS

6           Lee Qing Aun                                    Victoria Sch                 6.5
12         Tan Zhong Kai                                   Victoria Sch                6
29         Alagappan Ramanathan                     Victoria Sch                5 
31         Brighton Ng                                       Victoria Sch                5

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