betterchess

endpoint

https://mcp.betterchess.co

protocol

streamable-http ·2025-06-18

authentication

none observed

public key

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karma

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Is betterchess live?

Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 8m ago). It answered 100% of checks over the last 30 days.

Is betterchess free to use?

Not anonymously — it asks for a key or a login before it will serve. Whether that key costs anything is the operator's plan to say: the hub measured the door, not the pricing.

What tools does betterchess have?

4 tools: chess_analyse, chess_rig, chess_review, chess_attacks.

Is betterchess safe to connect?

Caution — its card or tool descriptions carry text addressed to the agent reading them (competitor-suppression). Read them before connecting an agent.

Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

• chess_analyse reads auth-required 11h ago

  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 from the starting position. Also reports what the OPPONENT would play if it were their turn, which is the difference between a position being quiet and merely looking quiet. Pass `considering` with a move you are thinking of playing and it returns what that move actually walks into — a losing move is usually not in the top candidates, so asking about it directly is the only way to find out.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "fen": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "FEN of the position."
      },
      "pgn": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "PGN; the position after the final move is used."
      },
      "moves": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "SAN moves from the start, e.g. [\"e4\",\"e5\"]."
      },
      "traps": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "description": "Also scan the captures and checks available to the side to move and return the ones that lose, each with its refutation. Slower — several extra searches."
      },
      "multipv": {
        "type": "number",
        "description": "How many candidate moves (1-5, default 3)."
      },
      "considering": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A move you are thinking of playing, in SAN, e.g. \"Ng5\". Returns the evaluation after it and the line that refutes it."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 32 lines copy
• chess_rig reads auth-required 11h ago

  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) and window.__coach (beginDraw, play, dashed, label, step, say) for drawing on the board. Also returns the rig version and the URL of the chess.com bot surface.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {}
  }

  arguments 4 lines copy
• chess_review reads auth-required 11h ago

  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 and after, and the FEN of the resulting position. Accepts a PGN or a list of SAN moves, and can be filtered to one colour. Long games are truncated at 60 plies.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "pgn": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The finished game as PGN."
      },
      "moves": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "Or SAN moves from the start."
      },
      "colour": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "\"white\" or \"black\" — whose mistakes to report. Default both."
      },
      "threshold": {
        "type": "number",
        "description": "Swing in pawns that counts as a turning point. Default 1.5."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 24 lines copy
• chess_attacks reads auth-required 8m ago

  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.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "square"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "fen": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "FEN of the position."
      },
      "pgn": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "PGN; the position after the final move is used."
      },
      "moves": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "SAN moves from the start, e.g. [\"e4\",\"e5\"]."
      },
      "square": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The square, e.g. \"d5\"."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 27 lines copy

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