General Terms

What is a Caïssa in chess?

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Caïssa is a chess vocabulary term: known as the goddess or muse of chess, whose name is taken from a nymph in a 1763 poem, Caïssa or The Game at Chess, by William Jones. Use it as vocabulary, but always ask what it changes about the position or the game situation.

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