Chessigma MCP Server

Ask Claude about chess openings, positions, games, puzzles and ratings. Every tool is read-only and needs no account.

Opening guides: name an opening, such as the Sicilian Defense, Caro-Kann, London System, Queen's Gambit, Italian Game, Ruy Lopez, French Defense or King's Indian Defense, and get Chessigma's guide: the main line, up to four key variations with the idea behind each, the strategy for White and for Black, strengths and weaknesses. Popular openings have a full guide; any of about 3,700 named lines returns its name, ECO code and moves.

What opening is this? Paste moves or a PGN to get the opening's name and ECO code, how far it followed known theory and the first move that left it.

Positions and games: give a FEN to get the side to move, whether it is check, checkmate or stalemate, every legal move and the material count. Paste a PGN for a summary of the players, the result, the opening and how the game ended. Share a Chess.com live game or Lichess game link to get a link to its move-by-move review on chessigma.com.

Daily chess puzzle: get today's puzzle, or any day's since 1 January 2024, with its position, rating and side to move, and solve it in the chat.

Elo calculator: estimate a rating change after one game with the Elo formula, with K-factor defaults for FIDE, Chess.com and Lichess. Chess.com and Lichess use Glicko ratings, so their real changes differ.

The tools do not run a chess engine. They state facts from the rules of chess, an opening catalogue and Chessigma's puzzle archive. For engine analysis, answers link to the Chessigma analysis board, where Stockfish runs in the browser.

Publisher claimed. 7 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under education, media. Published by chessigma.com.

At a glance

Available in: claude, claude-api, claude-code, claude-desktop

Documentation: Open docs

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 0 stars on mehdi-bh/chessigma-mcp, recorded 2026-10-02.

Status

Pod has not dialled Chessigma yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 7 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

analyze_game
analyze_position
calculate_elo
get_daily_puzzle
get_opening_guide
identify_opening
review_online_game

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://www.chessigma.com/api/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chessigma": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.chessigma.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

A hosted endpoint at https://www.chessigma.com/api/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chessigma": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.chessigma.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find Chessigma, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Chessigma",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Chessigma' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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