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Dylangames MCP Chess Engine

wilson-urdaneta/dylangames-mcp-chess-engine

A Stockfish-powered chess engine exposed as an MCP server using FastMCP. Calculates best moves via MCP tools accessible over SSE (default) or stdio transports using an MCP client library. Part of the ChessPal project.

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Install

pip install chesspal-mcp-engine

Environment variables

CHESSPAL_ENGINE_NAMECHESSPAL_ENGINE_VERSIONCHESSPAL_ENGINE_OSCHESSPAL_ENGINE_BINARYCHESSPAL_ENGINE_PATHMCP_HOST
Author
@wilson-urdaneta
Category
Gaming & Gamification, Developer Tools
License
GPL-3.0
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

Features

  • Robust Stockfish engine integration with proper process management

  • Exposes engine functionality via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using FastMCP.

  • Supports both SSE and stdio MCP transports for client interaction.

  • UCI protocol implementation for chess move generation

  • Comprehensive test suite with TDD approach

  • Error handling and recovery mechanisms

  • Support for FEN positions and move history

  • Flexible engine binary configuration

Tools (4)

  • get_best_move_tool

    Get the best move for a given chess position

  • validate_move_tool

    Validate if a move is legal in a given position

  • get_legal_moves_tool

    Get all legal moves in a given position

  • get_game_status_tool

    Get the current game status (in progress, checkmate, etc.)

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

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Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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