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Stockfish MCP Server

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Stockfish MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 54 installs a week from pypi.

A Stockfish MCP server to allow an LLM to play chess against Stockfish

Installs per day peak 24 · avg 8 · -26% w/w
a month agotoday
54
Installs / week
pypi · stockfish-mcp
Stars
on GitHub
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Stockfish MCP 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 stockfish-mcp -- uvx stockfish-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stockfish-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "stockfish-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.stockfish-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["stockfish-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stockfish-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "stockfish-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stockfish-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "stockfish-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Stockfish MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Stockfish MCP?
Stockfish MCP 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 stockfish-mcp was installed 54 times last week.
How do I connect Stockfish MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls stockfish-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Stockfish MCP?
The pypi package stockfish-mcp was installed 54 times in the last week. Week over week that is -26%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.