chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

CRACOW VARIATION 8I
7r. C/'6r C,n. by Lucxs vatr Lelder (1194'1533)
board from White\ side ihepieces are ariangcdon
his liist rank from lefi to ii8h1 as lollows: rook,
knight, alfil, courier, Mdnn, king. fers, Scrlci.r,
courier, al6l, knight, rook. Black\ array nitos
this, and each player has 12 paws on his second
nn* Tne ,S.n/.rti, h noved like a Nuir (one
\quarc larcr.llt n onc ot four dirccrions) anLl rhe
courier ike a bahop Ulal, each Phlrr belins
with rhe sabe ibur moves: the advance oI the
pawns in front ol rhe rc;ks and thc fcs ro the
fourth rank (only dese pa$ns could be noved lwo
squareslnniany) andthe joyleap oi the lers to lh.
square innediltcly behind ns pawn. Thc king
could ncithcr leap nor canle. In a qcll-known early
16ih-century painting Lucas van Leyden depicrs a
12 x 8board, a delail thatsome have suPposed to
be an exampie ot a isti tallibilily as social
chroniclcribul va. Levden hadprobably seen the
COzrO. CARLO FRANCESCO (.,lr1t{.1780).
Italian count sho wrote r LouFpart t*o volume
treadse on the eame, Aiuo.o deii S.ac.hi
(1766). Tbe ma;tr$ript. in the lihiary or L
s.HMrD. is dared 1740, and there nay hale been an
earlier editio.. The firsl volumc, parts one and
lwo, co.tains 228 opening vaiarions and more
than 200 sub varialions. the lareest numbcr to
appear in any book up 10 that time. The atangcmenr
is nor sysrenadcbutlhecoverageiswidc. and
there are nany lincs of plav not pteviousl,
pubhhed: BArlcH DLENCE, c
roN (5s2), nossorrMo vAnA,roN, and sEIN'rz
Arra.(. The second book consists ot parl three.
dealing qilh rhe diffcrenr laws ol che$ used in
Calabiia, and pa lour Bhich conrains a total ot
2O] .N DcAff and VIDDLE GAMtr positions, STUDIES,
and PRoBLEMS. For an adicle by RoYcRon on part
four see EG no.33,luly 19?3. Cozio suc.ceded to
lhe title of Cou.t ol MonliSlio andSalabue in 1725
and nh son succeeded him in 1?80.
cozlo ATTACK. 578 in |he rrNcs caMDtr
Acceplcd. given by.ozro, U66
COZIO DEFENCE. 570 in the KNG,S GAMBtr
Accepled, a standard continualion gi,en by Rul
roprz. aho knoln as thc Hanneken Deience.
Pn,\1irn Delence or Lichtenhein Countcrattacki
also ,126 in thc spANrss oPE\ING, a variation 6rst
gilen by cARRtM and tned in recent times by
CRACOW VARIATION. 489 in The rAI,IA{ oPEN.
rNG, playcd by Craco* Chess Club in a 6xed