Caïssa
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thumb|An illustration of William Jones (philologist)|Jones's Caïssa, author unknown
Caïssa is a fictional (anachronistic) Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess. The concept of a dryad of chess was first mentioned during the Renaissance by Italian poet Hieronymus Vida.
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