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I'm thinking of giving British Chess the poetic name of Caissa Britannia. Besides meaning, basically, British Chess, it better suggests the royalty of the female monarch. Caissa is the female personification of Chess, and Britannia is the female personification of Britain. Also, in Christian Freeling's game of Caissa, the Queen is the royal piece. So there is a precedent for using the name Caissa with a royal Queen. The idea of the royal Queen for this game began with the fact that Britain's current monarch is a woman, but that won't always be so, and given that I'm a bit younger than Queen Elizabeth, not to mention Prince Charles, I expect Britain will have a King again in my own lifetime. So, in the interest of having a name that continues to make sense in the future, and also to appease those who expect the name of British Chess to refer to a regional variant, which this game is not, I propose to use the name of Caissa Britannia. I will encourage comments, though not alternate suggestions, from Charles Gilman. I'm also wondering if anyone knows how Caissa is supposed to be pronounced. Would it be kawsa, kaysa, kawsha, kaysha, or something else?