As we say goodbye to 2021, we beckon a new 2022 hopefully with the impending end of the pandemic. I take this opportunity to wish my graduated students Damien, Leonard, Sun, Isaac, JingYi, Kuan Lei, Angela, Omar, Lana, Matthew and Luke, Yu Xiang and Yu Xuan,You Rui and Kexuan all the best in their future and thanks again for the time you have given to chess. Now on board I welcome Avery,Armaan, Marius, Theodore, Lucas, Fred, Timothy and Zachary on your chess journey! COVID has dealth a big blow to the Over the Board chess competition scene and no longer will we get to see huge numbers for our competitions. However, the Youtube has sproud more Chess content than ever with reputable GMs giving free chess content and all it takes is for someone to filter the gold from the weed. I am currently doing that in aid of my current students, encouraging them towards self-learning the basics which I find are more than adequately covered by the selected videos. That will leave their time on gam