The answer is no, but I just did a bit of research on this and the problem is that the MAX6954 expects the clock pin to be handled in a way that is incompatible with the way Atmel processors or Arduino do SPI
Well there was a site in German where someone had made a chess board with an arduino and a MAX6954 chip, but when I checked it now it seems to have changed and there is no mention of the chip on that page. That site put me onto this chip in the first place. I have some samples but have not used them in a project yet. The page used to be at:-
http://www.andreadrian.de/schach/#Selbstbau_Schachcomputer_SHAH
Google showed this:-
Then there is an unresolved thread on this forum.
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,12946.0.html