Love Lichess. These days I haven't been playing very much but always watching chess streaming commentary. So I was surprised when I saw Take Take Take had a launch party Monday but no stream on Tuesday (getting dumped by chess.com). I never play chess on a phone but I was curious to see how Take Take Take might be incorporating LLM for English language explanation. Last fall I did a sort of proof of concept of this, not nearly fleshed out like the TTT app.

So I literally dusted off an old Android tablet and played one game. Pleased to see I got logged right in to my lichess account, played a 10 + 5 unrated, did game review. I think this should be great for everybody all around, and as others have expressed I hope lichess doesn't get caught up in some business grief. The game review was not earth-shattering but decent move-by-move explanation that I think will help a lot of players, especially newer players.

I will stick to playing on lichess in browser, on a 43" tv monitor, running and reading local Stockfish eval., without the English explan.