April 6, 2026
Take Take Take has launched an update that turns it into a social chess platform built specifically for players who want to get better.
At the center of it is a partnership with Lichess that gives players something they have never had before: the infrastructure of one of the world's most beloved chess platforms, combined with a social and coaching experience built entirely around their improvement.
Take Take Take has taken on a new way of connecting in chess, aimed squarely at the hundreds of millions of casual players who have always deserved a better product.
Magnus Carlsen, co-founder of Take Take Take, will not be actively promoting the platform at launch. With Take Take Take now offering a full play and learning experience, it enters territory that conflicts with his ambassador agreement with Chess.com. He remains a co-founder and the company's largest shareholder, and the team expects his involvement to resume once those contractual constraints change. For now, the product will have to speak for itself.
Take Take Take is available now on iOS and Android.
Take Take Take and Lichess Join Forces
Lichess is free, open-source, and run by a community of volunteers who genuinely believe chess belongs to everyone. It has earned deep loyalty across the chess world for that reason. Take Take Take shares their vision and values. When the two teams came together, the result is a Play Zone built on Lichess infrastructure, giving Take Take Take users access to hundreds of thousands of active players and instant pairing, all within the Take Take Take app.
For players, this means something very practical: gain access to all our features while playing on the platform you already know and love. The moment you want to play, someone is there.
The partnership goes beyond logistics. Asbjørn "Assios" Steinskog, one of Take Take Take's lead engineers, spent ten years as a Lichess volunteer before joining the Take Take Take team. He understands what the open chess world stands for, and he helped build this partnership with that understanding at its core. Our joint effort intends to create a platform where it isn't only about playing chess, but sharing it.
The chess world has long needed a space where the values of openness and the ambitions of serious improvement could exist together. That space now exists.
Taking On Chess Improvement
Most chess players care about getting better. And for years, the products available to them have been built for everyone or no one in particular.
Take Take Take will become an app for the player who wants to improve. Every decision we're making comes back to one question: does this help a committed player get better and stay connected to the game they love?
If you play chess regularly without being a grandmaster, this app is built for you. For the player who already loves the game and wants to share that journey with friends, and who has never quite found a product that treats that goal as the priority.
Take Take Take is free on iOS and Android. The full web experience arrives in 30 days. Everything, including the social feed, the Play Zone, and the Game Review with its current features, is free to use from day one.
Your Games Mean Something Beyond the Result
Chess has always been a lonely game. You finish a match and move on. Nothing carries forward. Nobody sees what you did. The game just disappears.
Take Take Take's social feed changes that. When you play a game, it shows up for your friends and the people you follow. They can react to it, talk about it, compete alongside it. Your chess becomes part of a shared story. Think of how Strava turned running into something social: the run itself is the content, and the community is what makes showing up feel worthwhile. Take Take Take applies that same idea to chess. Suddenly every game you play has weight beyond the result.
A Coach That Speaks Like a Human
Ever been frustrated by not understanding why the chess engine flags your mistakes without explaining why?
The Game Review feature is unlike any analysis tool currently available to amateur players. It does not show you centipawn graphs or engine lines. It tells you, in plain language, what you missed and why it mattered.
A New Approach to Chess Challenges
The Play Zone, powered by Lichess, is live. Fast, clean, and connected to one of the largest player pools in the world. Whether you have five minutes or an hour, a game is available the moment you open the app.
The Challenges feature sits alongside this and turns playing into something social. Challenge a friend to see who gains the most rating in a week. Join a creator-led challenge and compete with hundreds of others at the same time. The system is designed so players of very different ratings can share the same competition and both feel it.
What Comes Next
Our app has been launched intentionally fast, and this is just the beginning. Our roadmap includes significant upgrades to Clubs and Challenges, feature parity with the previous app including live professional game coverage, and deeply personalised coaching that learns your style, your openings, and your weaknesses over time.
Every game should mean something. That is what the team is building toward.
Building the greatest social chess experience isn't done alone, and we want your opinion. What works, what does not, what is missing? Every piece of feedback shapes what comes next, and we are listening closely in these early weeks. Try the app, and tell us what you think!
Take Take Take is available now on iOS and Android. A web version arrives in 30 days. The team is hosting a live AMA on r/chess at 9PM CET tonight, April 6.
Take Take Take is available now on iOS and Android.