Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

I love Lichess more than anything, and I hope this brings a lot of donation to them that they can use independently, and that the Lichess brand does not get subsumed by Take Take Take and their corporate money.

Re: Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

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Post by Imustaskforhelp » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 3:18 PM UTC

sheiyei wrote: post #5

Lichess is incredibly well optimized [0] (and an amazing public service). I'm sure that this is very cost effective for TTT, so a win-win. [0] https://lichess.org/@/revoof/blog/optimizing-the-tablebase-s...

Lichess is written in Scala and is hosted on dedicated OVH for a very significantly small amount of money (I think just a few thousand dollars per month) and hosts so many millions of players and games.

It's an understatement how well optimized they are right down to the optimization techniques that they use and the infra providers that they use. The same thing even in something like AWS could cause significantly more amount of money.

It also shows that you don't need AWS/GCP/Azure for basically just about everything, to be honest.

Lichess is a beacon of hope and congrats to the lichess team for this cooperation with TTT.

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Post by cjpearson » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

The linked post on Take Take Take is interesting. Magnus Carlsen created a chess.com competitor and eventually sold it to chess.com and became a sponsor. While working as a sponsor he then created a new chess.com competitor.

I'm a Lichess patron and happy to see them get support, but I do feel a bit bad for chess.com in this case. Magnus is such a big figure in chess that organizations like FIDE and chess.com feel they have no choice but to accommodate his whims, but that doesn't come with any guarantees. I hope Lichess does not find themselves in a poor position if Magnus decides to "alter the deal".

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Post by tartoran » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

Big fan of Lichess here. Such a great and underrated service.

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Post by k2xl » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

Lichess has been absolutely fantastic platform. AS a chess enthusiast as an engineer of a chess website me and some others are building (shameless plug, https://chess67.com), they are the only platform I have worked with where so much is so easily accessible in terms of their APIs.

Their Oauth requires to special app registration nor any oauth secrets - only platform I have seen that does that.

I do wonder how this opens up ability for people to integrate Lichess’ player pool to their own apps.