Chess.com MCP

TypeScript MCP server backed by chess-web-api.

This is an unofficial MCP server. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by Chess.com.

Requirements

• Node.js 20 or newer

• npm

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Build and run the compiled server:

npm run build
npm start

Run a local end-to-end smoke test. It verifies that all official tools are registered, starts the compiled MCP server, and exercises representative JSON and PGN responses against Chess.com.

npm run test:smoke

MCP client configuration

Build the project, then add the server to an MCP client configuration.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chesscom": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "chesscom-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

Player:

• get_player_profile

• get_player_stats

• get_player_current_daily_games

• get_player_to_move_daily_games

• get_player_archives

• get_player_games

• get_player_monthly_pgn

• get_player_clubs

• get_player_matches

• get_player_tournaments

• get_titled_players

Clubs and tournaments:

• get_club

• get_club_members

• get_club_matches

• get_tournament

• get_tournament_round

• get_tournament_round_group

Team matches:

• get_team_match

• get_team_match_board

• get_live_team_match

• get_live_team_match_board

Countries:

• get_country

• get_country_players

• get_country_clubs

General:

• get_daily_puzzle

• get_random_puzzle

• get_streamers

• get_leaderboards

Unofficial:

• get_game_by_id: retrieves live game data and reconstructs PGN using Chess.com's undocumented website callback

get_game_by_id is not part of Chess.com's Published Data API. It may change or stop working without notice, and excessive requests may result in an IP ban. Use it sparingly.

Deprecated getPlayerOnline remains excluded.

Chess.com's public API limits parallel requests. This server serializes API calls to reduce 429 Too Many Requests responses.