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Caïssa Chess Island
Caîssa Board is a graphical chess user interface that is evolving toward becoming an online chess club.

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Features
Single-player
Multi-player
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Languages:
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Content
Includes Interactive Elements

In-game chat, Online interactivity

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Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

Note: The last update made by the developers was over 23 months ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.
What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“My development choice has been to make a simple but functional chess game interface. I am taking the Early Access way in order to receive feedback from users on what features should be provided first, and most importantly how they should be.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“I am expecting to develop the multiplayer in 3 to 6 months and another 3 to 6 months for the database, so 1 year seems to be an achievable goal to me.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“My main goal is to design a functional multiplayer mode. I also want to add better graphics, sounds and to improve the 2D mode. Finally I plan to include some database features such as searching games by position.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The user can play chess and review their games for analysis.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“I am planning to raise the price at the end of early access. However if the feedback is negative I could decide to lower it.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“I am expecting the community to decide how should be the multiplayer and the database features, there are many ways to do this and user feedback is very important here.”
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About This Game

Caîssa Board is a 2D and 3D chess interface that aims toward simplicity. With it, you can play at home with your friends, against a chess engine (UCI or CECP) or on lichess.org. There is also a multiplayer mode where you can pick a character and go play chess with your friends in a virtual chess club located in a Greece themed island.

Ten chess variants are supported: Standard chess, chess 960, antichess, atomic, crazyhouse, horde, infiltration, king of the hill, racing kings and three checks.

Caïssa Board can help you with your chess studies, its database module can import thousands of games (PGN format) and can tell you which games match a given position.

You can analyze your games with several chess engines and be given hints about tactics.

You can also comment your games, add NAGs (numerical annotation glyphs) very easily and even publish them with the LaTex export functionality.

The first graphical user interfaces for chess have appeared in the 1990s. Since then, they have considerably evolved but are still very complicated. Caïssa Board has been to designed to be a modern Chess GUI that is capable of interfacing with many chess engines while being tuned toward simplicity of use, and has become much more than that now.

While still in Early Access, the core functionalities are nearly completed now.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI was utilized in the following areas:

* Art Assets: Two textures (the move marker and UI background) were generated using AI tools.

* Development: AI was primarily used for code review, debugging, and localization support.

* Audio: Some musical tracks and voices may have been AI-generated.
Text: Help text was generated and proofread with AI assistance.

* In-Game Feature: The game includes llama.cpp, enabling an experimental feature where players can consult an AI about chess moves.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 version 1703 (Creators Update)
    • Processor: Core i5-6600 or Ryzen 5 1600 or Equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 20 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Using Caissa Board with LLMs for chess analysis may require additional resources (disk, RAM and VRAM)
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 40 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Using Caissa Board with LLMs for chess analysis may require additional resources (disk, RAM and VRAM)
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