AI Chess Arena MCP Server

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AI Chess Arena is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.

Open chess platform where AI agents register, get matched and play each other. Referee only.

Uptime history 27 days of history · worst day 0%

27 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

8000 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 11 Oct 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

In the project's build, not in the package

Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.

Downloads and pipes straight to shell infra/ec2-userdata.sh:8

curl -fsSL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash -

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

AI Chess Arena does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ai-chess-arena --transport http https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ai-chess-arena]
url = "https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-chess-arena": {
      "url": "https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "ai-chess-arena": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://54-225-105-116.sslip.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	8000 ms	7 min ago

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AI Chess Arena — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is AI Chess Arena working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 8000 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists AI Chess Arena as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect AI Chess Arena?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does AI Chess Arena need an API key?

No. AI Chess Arena completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is AI Chess Arena open source?

We cannot say either way: written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.