# BetterChess

- Registry name: `co.betterchess/betterchess` · version 1.0.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Maps, location & weather
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): prompts, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=co.betterchess%2Fbetterchess
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/co.betterchess--betterchess.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Chess MCP for Claude: engine analysis, attack maps, game review. One URL, no install.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://mcp.betterchess.co`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `chess\_analyse`: Returns an engine evaluation of a chess position: the strongest candidate moves with their scores, and the position's checkable facts — side to move, whether that side is in check, undefended pieces and the pieces attacking them, and the material balance. Accepts a FEN, a PGN, or a list of SAN moves
- `chess\_attacks`: Returns the exact list of squares attacked by the piece standing on a given square in a chess position, together with that piece's type and colour. Returns an empty list when the square is unoccupied. Accepts a FEN, a PGN, or a list of SAN moves from the starting position.
- `chess\_rig`: Returns the JavaScript source of the in-page coaching rig for a chess.com bot game, to be run in that page by the browser's javascript tool. Once running, the page exposes window.\_\_coachWait\(ms\) \(resolves with events and board status\), window.\_\_coachWatch.status\(\) \(moves, fen, turn, myTurn, result\)
- `chess\_review`: Replays a finished game ply by ply with the engine and returns the moves where the evaluation swung by more than a threshold \(default 1.5 pawns\). Each entry gives the move number, the side that moved, the move played, the engine's preferred move, the size of the swing in pawns, the evaluation before

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