Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20141226065028

I certainly prefer Kachess in terms of what I'm used to hearing for the past 2 years and I'm sure that goes double for fans that have been around for longer.

It isn't that it doesn't match "Curtis/Curtiss" exactly, but that it would seem to match "Curtess" though we can't find any solid source to back it up. It definitely doesn't match Curtis/Curtiss. There's an "e" sound in there that differentiates the two.

There also isn't anything else though for "Kachess" as a name other than "Car Chase". Yet we have "Meirisu" which was a very deliberate name choice to match a real word/name (Maylis).

I think it's possible this may be the case with Kachess, as mothy could've otherwise just made the names "Meikona" and "Kaitono" and been done with it.

I think the chess thing is another possibility, but I haven't found anything (yet) that could support that name choice either.