Caissa
Caissa is the ( anachronistic ) goddess of chess . It is a modern invention, in fact the game of chess was not yet known in pre-Christian Europe.
The name comes from a poem of the same name by William Jones published in 1763. In it, Caissa is a nymph with whom the god Mars falls in love. When his love is not returned, he has the game of chess invented to win her heart. Jones was inspired for his poem by the work Scacchia ludus by Marcus Hieronymus Vida , first printed in 1525 , in which the nymph is named Scacchis .
The poem was translated into German by Jahn, Zander and Oswald.
Caissa is included in the name of numerous chess clubs. The term is also used more often as a metaphor in chess literature , for example in expressions such as He was a favorite of Caissas (a strong player) or Caissa struck him with blindness (he made a gross mistake).
The Soviet chess program that won the first world computer chess championship in 1974 was called Kaissa .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marco Girolamo Vida: Chess game of the gods. Scacchia ludus (Living Antiquity). Artemis Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7608-4062-0 .
