Welcome to Brisbane's premier social chess community. We are a registered community organization in Queensland dedicated to promoting the love of chess through regular meetups and social engagement.

Join us at any of our six weekly locations across Brisbane:

Fun, Friendly, and Free

We're always looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our community! Whether you're interested in:

• Contributing to our projects and repositories
• Helping with site development
• Managing our Discord server
• Playing chess with fellow enthusiasts

After your pull request has been merged you will be invited to join the Brisbane Social Chess GitHub Organization.

Connect with other chess enthusiasts, join discussions, and participate in exclusive events by joining our Discord server!

Our Discord server is the best place to stay updated on upcoming meetups, online tournaments, and community activities. Everyone is welcome, from beginners to seasoned players!

We extend a special invitation to Master level chess players with official FIDE profiles. Eligible titles include:

• Super Grandmasters
• Grandmasters (GM)
• International Masters (IM)
• FIDE Masters (FM)
• Candidate Masters (CM)

To Join: Please verify your credentials by linking your GitHub profile to your chess.com and/or lichess profiles. Open an issue to request membership once completed.

• Organizer
  • Matt McLean: "A good player is always lucky" - Capablanca
• Co-organizers:
  • Adam Lomsargis: Long time chess player with a great respect and passion for the game. I believe chess offers more than just a competitive space in which to battle your opponent. It's also a great way to socialise with intelligent people and have a laugh! :D
  • Ben M: How does the horsey move again? 🤔
  • Jimmy Joe
  • John Bampton: GitHub is more about collaboration and community than code. Let me know about your favorite chess variants.
  • Rob Garvey: Welcome to Brisbane Social Chess. Come along and play with us, let us know your ideas, and help us organize future events.
  • Steve: Official pawn wrangler.
  • the Prof
• Assistant organizer
  • Roger Clarke
• Event organizers
  • Christoph Dierkes
  • JoeT
  • Marty Benjamin
  • Peiqi Sun
  • Stuart

• John Bampton: Lead Maintainer
• Rob Garvey

• John Bampton: Manager Operations and Relations
• Max Base: Lead Developer
• Anuradha Fernando

• John Bampton: Admin
• Jasper: Team Leaders
• therealnugget: Team Leaders
• Anuradha Fernando
• Ayush Rana
• Mahabub Islam Prio
• Matt McLean
• Max Base
• Mohammad Lotfi Akbarabadi
• Nicholas Meredith
• Rob Garvey
• SM Riad

Be Our First GitHub Chess Master! Join the Brisbane Social Chess GitHub Organization today.

• Chess: https://lichess.org/
  • Lots of standard two player chess sets
• Four-player chess: https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess
  • One vinyl Four-player chess set with 68 plastic pieces including 8 total queens which is packaged in a green cylindrical zipper bag
• Harmegedo 6 Player Chess Set - The Board of Lords
  • One Harmegedo chess set with 6 armies and 108 total soldiers. Each army starts with 9 pieces (including 2 queens) and 9 pawns for a total of 18 soldiers
• Quaternity: https://play.quaternity.com/
  • https://www.quaternity-chess.com/
  • One Quaternity 4 Player Chess Set Basic52 144 Squares Wood Folding 64 Quality Pieces

• Chessplus: Everyday Edition
  • A fast paced, edgy version of chess with exponentially more moves & all new strategies

• Go - at least one small Go set
• Shogi (Japanese chess) - at least two Shogi sets
• Xiangqi (Chinese chess) - at least one Xiangqi set

Please Star some of our repositories ⭐ 💫 🌠 🌟

You can set your membership in the Brisbane Social Chess GitHub Organization to Public on the People page when logged in.

Please show your support for your new team 🏢 🧑🏽‍💻 💃 😎 🚀