Caissa Italia was established at the turn of the millennium as a publishing house specializing in chess. Today, in addition to chess, it deals with other games, golf, music, linguistics, non-fiction, fiction, theatre and children's books. At the beginning of 2024, the catalogue has over 250 titles, more or less equally divided between chess and other series: Chess (122), Fiction and Theatre (19) Music (14) Games (3) Kids (64) Golf (11) Linguistics (19).
Awards won include the Italian Chess Book of the Year (several times), the National Prize for Scientific Dissemination, the Nati Per Leggere Award, and the Image of the Book International Award (several times).