chess.com MCP Server
Provides tools to fetch public player profile and stats from Chess.com.
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@chess.com MCP Serverget stats for hikaru"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Setting Up MCP server
This is for windows setup . You need python and uv installed on machine.If uv not installed then install using
pip install uv
Make a demo folder in windows
mkdir demo
cd demoInitialized virtual environment
demo>uv init
demo>uv venv
demo>.venv\Scripts\activate
(demo) c:\demo>uv add mcp[cli] requestsopen the folder in code
```bash
(demo) demo>code .Add Folder src and chess
With in VS code , click on folder icon and add folder named src
Inside the src folder add another folder named chess
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Add File init.py
Add empty file inside chess folder __init__.py
Add chess_api.py
Add file named ```chess_api.py``` inside chess folder and add below codeimport requests
CHESS_API_BASE = "https://api.chess.com/pub"
headers = {
"accept": "application/json",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Python/3.10"
}
def get_player_profile(username):
url = f"{CHESS_API_BASE}/player/{username}"
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.json()
def get_player_stats(username):
url = f"{CHESS_API_BASE}/player/{username}/stats"
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.json()Add file server.py
Add another file named server.py inside chess folder and add below code
from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP
mcp = FastMCP("chess.com")
from .chess_api import get_player_profile, get_player_stats
@mcp.tool()
def get_chess_player_profile(username: str):
"""Get the public profile for a Chess.com player by username."""
return get_player_profile(username)
@mcp.tool()
def get_chess_player_stats(username: str):
"""Get the stats for a Chess.com player by username."""
return get_player_stats(username)
def main():
mcp.run(transport="stdio")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()Update the pyproject.toml file
The chess.server:main indicates there is chess folder inside src
and call main method in file server.py
[project.scripts]
chess = "chess.server:main"
[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
[tool.setuptools]
package-dir = {"" = "src"}
[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
where = ["src"]Run with MCP
demo>uv run chessNote the command chess match [project.scripts]
There will be no output , if you get any syntax errors it will show. Just
exit out of server console using Ctrl+C
Install Claude Desktop from official website
Add configuration file for Claude
Go to the folder C:\Users\{yourname}\AppData\Roaming. Or In run command type
%APPDATA% .Verify that the folder contains a subfolder named Claude.
create a new file name claude_desktop_config.json
add following contents into it . Update the driectory path based on your computer
eg C:\\temp\\AI\\MCP_ORL3\\demo
{
"mcpServers": {
"kannan-server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"C:\\temp\\AI\\MCP_ORL3\\demo",
"run",
"chess"
]
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop ,start a new chat
Look for icon SearchAndTools below prompt textbox
You will be able to see the mcp server agent named kannan-server ,based on the
name you provided in the configuration file.
Note to disable websearch. Now you can start searching for profile info and stats for Chess.com players using the commands you defined.
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