{"id":199620,"date":"2026-11-03T06:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=199620&preview=true&preview_id=199620"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:50:06","slug":"roger-orasji-national-youth-chess-champion-for-second-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/roger-orasji-national-youth-chess-champion-for-second-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Orasji national youth chess champion for second consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sixteen-year-old Candidate Master (CM) Roger Orasji has successfully defended his title as Suriname\u2019s national youth chess champion. During the National Youth Championship (NJK) 2026 in the U20 category, he remained unbeaten and finished with eight points from nine games. This earned him the national youth title for the second consecutive year.<\/div>\n
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Orasji secured his championship on Sunday, November 1, by defeating Kasanradji Dean in the ninth and final round. The young chess player recorded seven victories and two draws during the tournament. He was therefore the only participant to finish the championship without a defeat.<\/p>\n

Ky-mani Wijnhard finished in second place with 7.5 points, just half a point behind the champion. Wijnhard won his final game against Shefali Creebsburg, but was unable to catch Orasji.\u00a0Dewinder Ramesar claimed third place with seven points. In the final round, he defeated Candidate Master Ethan Tjin Kon Kiem, who consequently finished fourth with 6.5 points.<\/p>\n

Elise Wu best female participant<\/h2>\n

Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Elise Wu, also the national women\u2019s champion, finished fifth in the overall standings with six points. She won her final game against Rishi Voorburg and was also the best female participant in the U20 tournament.\u00a0Shefali Creebsburg took second place in the women\u2019s standings, followed by Yashila Parshadi in third place.<\/p>\n

Roger Matoewi wins U30\/30+ tournament<\/h2>\n

The U30\/30+ chess tournament was held simultaneously with the National Youth Championship. FIDE Master (FM) Roger Matoewi was the overall winner with six points from seven games.\u00a0Shakiel Kalloe and Vivekanand Kalloe both finished with 5.5 points in a shared second place. As the national U30 title still had to be decided, they played tiebreak games.\u00a0Vivekanand Kalloe emerged victorious and claimed the title of Suriname\u2019s national U30 chess champion.<\/p>\n

Final standings National Youth Championship U20<\/h2>\n
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Place<\/th>\nChess player<\/th>\nPoints<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nRoger Orasji<\/td>\n8 out of 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nKy-mani Wijnhard<\/td>\n7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDewinder Ramesar<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nEthan Tjin Kon Kiem<\/td>\n6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nElise Wu<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

De Surinaamse Schaakbond congratulates all prize winners and expresses its appreciation to everyone who contributed to the organisation and conduct of both championships.<\/p>\n

The full tournament results can be consulted via Chess-Results: NJK \u2013 tournament 1520151<\/a> and U30\/30+ \u2013 tournament 1520141<\/a>. The results in this article are based on information provided by De Surinaamse Schaakbond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Orasji defended his title as Suriname’s national youth chess champion with 8 out of 9 in the U20 class, unbeaten and for the second year in a row. Elise Wu was the best female participant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":199464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1445375691985227":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307","service":"facebook","timestamp":1793699723,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","wpai_generated_summary":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20286],"tags":[25740,25734,25736,25737,25738,25739,25424,25735],"class_list":["post-199620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-chess","tag-elise-wu","tag-national-youth-chess-championship-2026","tag-nyc-2026","tag-roger-matoewi","tag-roger-orasji","tag-surinaamse-schaakbond","tag-youth-chess"],"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,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/878187796_1419542337018213_1537644326597546748_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199620","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=199620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199672,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199620\/revisions\/199672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}