We'd love your sponsorship & assistance - Who we are

The club was incorporated in 1981 and has met weekly on a Tuesday Night at the Buderim War Memorial Hall since 1997 and at the Sunshine Coast Art Group Buderim. 

We are a small club, currently, nearing 100 members, we are out-growing our current club facilities at the BWMCA. If you would like to sponsor our club for Tuesday evenings by providing an area for our tournaments we would greatly be indebited. On an average we have just under  40 players on Tuesdays. If you or your business would like to sponsor our tournaments on Tuesday evenings please contact us to discuss.

Not only do we hold clubhouse tournaments, our club has organised interschool tournaments with our affliates for both primary and secondary since 1990, In the recent age championship over 200 hundred students attended the last tournament held at the Mt Creek State School, this tournament is designed to give schools a chance to work out their school teams. Our representative tournament will be held later this year, and the top two teams in both primary and secondary will go on to represent the Sunshine Coast at the Queensland Championships. 

In the past, we have held friendly tournaments that encourage families to learn, play and socialise. We held one earlier this year in the BATS Theatre and we got over 30 non-members attending, young and old, so we now know that there are still people wanting to play on weekends. These tournaments also give children opportunities to improve their Queensland ratings by playing adults, without the need to travel to Brisbane or the Gold Coast, ratings are important criteria that the Queensland Chess Association of Queensland use to select students for their Elite Training Squad. 

We would like to have more friendly day competitions, help juniors achieve their goals, and allow elderly chess players to play chess during the day, as they don’t like to drive at night. We would like to regulary have our Chess on the Beach activities continue and evolve.

We have a strong affiliation with the community as a whole and provide support including our Aboriginal People and LGBTI communities.

Our Team:

• President: Christopher A. Koloszar +61 449 914 747 

                     president@suncoastchess.com.au

• Vice President : (Currently Open)

• Juniors Development : Tony Powell

• Secretary: Glenn Ingham

• Treasurer: Harry Hirst

                     treasurer@suncoastchess.com.au

• Tournament Director:  (Currently Open)

More Volunteers Needed!

If you love what our organization stands for and love to assist in furthering the art of Chess in our community, we welcome you to join our team. There are so many opportunities to assist.

Please call to have a discussion on how you can help us

President: Christopher A. Koloszar +61 449 914 747 

president@suncoastchess.com.au