MCP Chess

Name: MCP Chess
Author: jiayao

jiayao

Plays chess against an LLM with a rendered board, standard move notation and position analysis from PGN files.

Setup

Choose your client, copy the config, then fill in any required environment variables.

claude mcp add chess -- uvx mcp-chess

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.chess]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-chess"]

# codex mcp add chess -- uvx mcp-chess

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-chess"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "chess": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-chess"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.gemini/settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-chess"
      ]
    }
  }
}

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-chess"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.trae/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-chess"
      ]
    }
  }
}