{"id":188735,"date":"2026-09-15T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=188735"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:41:59","slug":"arwien-bhagwandas-best-surinamese-at-strongly-contested-tobago-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/arwien-bhagwandas-best-surinamese-at-strongly-contested-tobago-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Arwien Bhagwandas best Surinamese at strongly contested Tobago Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>Federation Master Arwien Bhagwandas finished as the best Surinamese draughts player at the Tobago Blitz tournament. He scored 11 points from nine games and finished thirteenth in a strong international field of 44 players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">T<\/span>he tournament was played over nine rounds according to the Swiss system. Participants were given five minutes of thinking time per game, with an increment of three seconds per move.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 44 participants, 24 players held an international title. The field consisted of eight grandmasters, four international masters, eleven federation masters and one candidate federation master.<\/p>\n<p>With his thirteenth-place finish, Bhagwandas left several strong title holders behind him.<\/p>\n<h2>Several Surinamese in the middle of the field<\/h2>\n<p>The other Surinamese participants also made their mark. Federation Master Niaaz Salarbaks finished sixteenth with 10 points. Federation Master Santosh Bhagwandas also scored 10 points and came eighteenth.<\/p>\n<p>Federation Master Arief Salarbaks and candidate federation master Sharvan Debipersad both collected 9 points. They finished in 22nd and 25th place respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Federation Master John Schmeltz finished 26th with 8 points, followed by Phavan Basdewsingh, who also scored 8 points and finished 28th. Federation Master Rinaldo Kemnaad concluded the tournament in 33rd place.<\/p>\n<h2>Dutch podium<\/h2>\n<p>The overall victory went to Dutch grandmaster Jitse Slump. His compatriots Wouter Sipma and Simon Harmsma finished second and third respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch grandmaster Martijn van IJzendoorn, who has Surinamese roots, took fourth place. Russian grandmaster Aleksandr Shvartsman completed the top five.<\/p>\n<p>With three Dutch grandmasters on the podium and four Dutch players in the top four, the Tobago Blitz tournament had a strong Dutch finish. For Suriname, Arwien Bhagwandas&#8217;s thirteenth place was the best performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federation Master Arwien Bhagwandas finished as the best Surinamese player in 13th place at the strongly contested Tobago Blitz draughts tournament, with 11 points from nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":188729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20286],"tags":[21443,16291,20032,20643,16292,21888],"class_list":["post-188735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-draughts","tag-key-news","tag-nieuws","tag-sport","tag-suriname","tag-tobago-blitz-tournament"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188741,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188735\/revisions\/188741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}