Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Updates @ 4/15/2008 11:52:00 PM

Greetings all members,

First and foremost, my apologies for such a long inactive period. The website is currently undergoing renovations and hence, the lack of updates. We are in the midst of fixing this problem and we urge your patiance and understanding.

The new semester has finally started marking the official end to the previous reign and the start of a new one.

I'll kick-off my reign with an official explanation why we address ourselves as NP Chess and not Intellectual Competitive Games. Intellectual Competitive Games was a name elected by the previous stand-in committee. The name was unofficially approved by our advisor however, this was done prior to the knowledge of a newly formed CCA - Board Games Club. Because our new name clashed with this Board Games Club, we were presented with a choice of either a merger or to not change our name. The 2008 NP Chess Committee elected to remain as NP Chess and thus while we keep our logo as ICG Chess (International, Chinese, Go), our official name has remained as NP Chess.

Some highlights of NP Chess under its new management includes:
Interaction Day
The once a month interaction day where activities have already been mapped for the entire semester by our Welfare Officer, Wendy. Please participate.. under the current leadership, your divisional budget depends on your attendance.

Competitive Trainings
In addition, competitive players can look forward to a myraid of competitions throughout the entire semester in preparation for IVP. A rating system along with pre-arranged friendly games have been organised for Team A and Team B to gauge standards and improvements.

Competitive players, do note that cca points are granted for all competitions commissioned as a school activity. Hence, do not feel shy at claiming your right and do bug your captains for points should you rightfully earn them. Understanding that membership points are grossly insufficient, there has been a significant amounts of competitions organized by each division to provide members with ample points, along with other Chess Activities. Of course, 75% attendance is a must!

Recreational players don't fret. NP Chess provides sufficient points for all members. As long as members contribute to NP Chess on a non-competitive basis, we provide points as well. Eg: Committee positions, special planning activities like CCA Fiesta, NP Chess Showdown, designing of NP Chess Website, etc. So long as your contributions are in line with NP Chess vision, I give you my assurance, there'll be sufficient points earning opportunities. Having said that, it should be pretty apparent what a profit-oriented person I am... so no free-loaders okay?

Camp Genesis
As usual, a bonding camp would be organized to welcome our new members. This camp is compulsory for all NP Chess members. It's pretty important in terms of getting to know people from different divisions... with a present member strength of 40 members (not including our new members), there are lots of people in NP Chess, lots of whom members don't know about. Camp Genesis marks the beginning of everything new... let's make this camp a successful one together.

Contact US!
So many avenues to contact US! We have a tagboard which allows for moaning whenever we don't blog... we have an official website email npchessclub@hotmail.com manned by our Marketing Project Manager Sheng Sheng and if you really need to complain/feedback/ask questions/etc... I'm available at cca_chess@np.edu.sg.

Lastly, Announcements!
NP Chess Noticeboard is under-going renovations as well and will be ready by the end of this week. Notices will be put up monthly or when there are announcements so do check. This website is also putting up notices on a regular basis. To prove a point:

18th April 2008, 6pm, LT51B, Briefing and welcome session for ALL Members (Present and NEW)

Briefing includes information about Camp Genesis as well as a time to meet the NEW members. So be there and don't be late!

- Emperor 棋胜 -