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Chess UCI MCP Server

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Chess UCI runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 198 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 11 Sep 2026.

Analyze chess positions and get best moves from UCI engines such as Stockfish or Leela

Installs per day peak 55 · avg 26 · +20% w/w
a month agotoday
198
Installs / week
pypi · chess-uci-mcp
3
Stars
0 open issues
11 Sep 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Chess UCI every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add chess-uci-mcp -- uvx chess-uci-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess-uci-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chess-uci-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.chess-uci-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["chess-uci-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chess-uci-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chess-uci-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "chess-uci-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chess-uci-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Chess UCI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Chess UCI?
Chess UCI runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package chess-uci-mcp was installed 198 times last week.
How do I connect Chess UCI?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls chess-uci-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Chess UCI?
The pypi package chess-uci-mcp was installed 198 times in the last week. Week over week that is +20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Chess UCI open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 3 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.