Take Take Take
Magnus Carlsen's chess app. Play, follow elite events, and get plain-language AI explanations of every game you finish.
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Our take
Take Take Take relaunched in April 2026 as a full play-and-improve platform, and the AI game explanations are the standout: instead of an eval bar and a forest of variations, you get a readable story of where the game turned. It's clearly aimed at the 800–2000 crowd and it nails that brief. I'm not moving my analysis workflow here — the tooling is too shallow for serious study — but for a casual player who wants to understand their games without learning engine output, this is the friendliest option on this list. Watch this one.
Take Take Take started in November 2024 as Magnus Carlsen’s tournament-broadcast app and relaunched in April 2026 as a full chess platform aimed at improving players roughly between 800 and 2000 Elo. The headline AI feature: after every game, a digital coach walks you through what happened move by move in plain language — what you missed, and why it mattered.
Around that core there’s a play zone (powered by Lichess infrastructure), event coverage with recaps from Carlsen and Levy Rozman, and fantasy chess during elite tournaments. The company is backed by Coatue, Patrick Collison, and Jim Breyer.
The app is free to start; a premium tier exists but pricing hasn’t been clearly published yet.
Pros
- The AI game recap explains what happened in plain language a club player actually understands — no engine-speak
- Genuinely polished mobile-first design, with recaps and event coverage featuring Carlsen and Levy Rozman
- Serious backing (Carlsen as co-founder, top-tier investors) means it's unlikely to vanish next year
Cons
- Very new in its current form — the feature set is still thin compared to Chess.com or Lichess
- Premium pricing is opaque; it's not clear what you'll eventually pay for
- Gameplay itself runs on Lichess infrastructure, so the "platform" is mostly the layer on top
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