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Cute, but no depth.......2006-06-12

This book is a cute read, quick but cute. It's really just filler with a couple of funny ideas along the way. There's not too much depth to it. This idea would be good as a daily comic strip but is too close to a one trick pony to last the length of a graphic novel.

A raucous, exciting, and more than a little satirical graphic novel.......2005-09-11

Cryptozoo Crew, Volume 1 is a raucous, exciting, and more than a little satirical graphic novel following a handsome, brawny, gung-ho cryptozoologist and his stunningly beautiful not to mention ruthlessly resourceful wife. Together their voyages of discovery pit them against chupacabra, cave monkeys, carnivorous plants, skunk apes, yeti, and many more monstrous denizens of terrible jungles in which no man can bear to ask for directions and listen to the answer. Tongue-in-cheek humor, rip-snortin' black-and-white action, and a lighthearted nod to many pulp adventure comics in the past make Cryptozoo Crew, Volume 1 just plain fun cover to cover, and leave the reader hungry for more.

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The Matrix trilogy is unique among recent popular films in that it is constructed around important philosophical questions--classic questions which have fascinated philosophers and other thinkers for thousands of years. Editor Christopher Grau here presents a collection of new, intriguing essays about some of the powerful and ancient questions broached by The Matrix and its sequels, written by some of the most prominent and reputable philosophers working today. They provide intelligent, accessible, and thought-provoking examinations of the philosophical issues that support the films. Philosophers Explore The Matrix includes an introduction that surveys the use of philosophical ideas in the film. Topics that the contributors tackle include: how a collaborative dream could differ from hallucination, the difference between the Matrix and the "real" world; why living in the Matrix would be considered "bad"; the similarities between the Matrix and Plato's Cave; the moral status of artificially created beings, whether one can behave immorally in illusory circumstances, and the true nature of free will and responsibility. This volume also includes an appendix of classic philosophical writing on these issues by Plato, Berkeley, Descartes, Putnam, and Nozick. Philosophers Explore The Matrix will fascinate any fan of the films who wants to delve deeper into their themes, as well as any student of philosophy who desires an accessible entry into this challenging and profoundly vital world of ideas.

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Absolutely one of the best volumes on the Matrix Trilogy.......2005-10-07

This book is undoubtedly one of the best volumes on the philosophical ideas underlying the three Matrix movies.

The book is what was to be expected from Oxford University Press: high quality. Not only are the articles written by well-known philosophers such as James Pryor, Colin McGinn, Hubert Dreyfus, David Chalmers, Andy Clark, and Kevin Warwick (to name just a few), but they are also of outstanding quality. (Besides, unlike many other books, this book deals with all three Matrix films!)

Every article touches on many delicate philosophical (and sometimes religious) aspects of the three Matrix films, but though the philosophy is deep and sometimes counterintuitive, the authors are able to explain the philosophical intricacies with a minimal use of jargon - thus making this a highly accessible volume for a wide audience.

The book also offers (in the Appendix) a selection from the classic philosophical texts that inspired the makers of the Matrix trilogy.

It is a book that makes you really wonder: what if it all were true...? What if the review you are now reading is not really there? What if... If you read this book, you will never watch The Matrix again in the same way. Highly recommended!

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CHRISTOPHER GRAU
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Not perfect, but good

Poorly Organized

The Bird Flies High Again... (You KNEW a pun was coming sooner or later... :) )

At last an Excellent book on the not so famous 1. f4 !!!

A good book on a mediocre chess opening

Birds Opening: Detailed Coverage of an Underrated and Dynamic Choice for White (Everyman Chess)
Timothy Taylor
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Not perfect, but good.......2006-06-01

I have played Bird's Opening more or less regularly for years in blitzgames, OTB and Corresponde games. I consider this book to be very readable for anyone, who wants to begin the game with 1.f4 and has at least some knowledge about the Dutch Defence. Taylor makes good work with the main lines and shows correct move-orders for both the White and Black. I think that this is a balanced book and shows You also, how to play Bird's Opening as a Black.

However, no book is perfect. Some critics:

1) There is no handling of the reversed London-systems 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bf5 / 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5:
In my experience, these setups appear quite often in amateur games, but they are outside the scope of this book. Other typical amateur setup is 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6!? - Taylor shows in the notes that 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e3 Nc6?! 4.d4 is good for White. So You can play well 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.e3 Bg4 4.d4 etc. But what about reversed London setup 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.e3 Bf5 ? - now 4.d4 could be met with the crude 4.-Nb4!?, when You have to play 5.Na3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 or try strange-looking 5.Bd3!? Nxd3 6.cxd3 - I think that here 4.Bb5 is better try.

2) The Chapter of the Classical Bird 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Be2 Nf6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 c5:
This is what I myself have played. I think that there is too much material about 7.Qe1 and 8.c3 - it is shown to be rather weak setup. More interesting alternatives for White are 7.Nc3 and 7.a4 - I think that Taylor could have skipped out some of the games with 7.Qe1 and 8.c3 and concentrated more in those better alternatives for White. Probably Taylor is also a bit too hard with 7.Qe1: it is a commital move, yes - but if You follow it with 8.a4!?, You might get quite good game as Taylor himself shows at the end of the chapter (althoug he recommends You to play first 6.a4 / 7.a4 and only later Qe1).

3) The Chapter of the Recipe variation 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e3 Nd7 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3:
There is no obligation for Black to commit himself with the premature Knight development 5.-Ngf6?! and getting some problems after 6.g4! Only given alternative is the wild gambit 5.-e5!?. But there is also good and solid move 5.-c6!?, which in my opinion is best for Black in this position. With 5.-c6!? Black can force White to Stonewall-setup with 6.d4. This is left outside the scope of this book. As 5.-c6!? is mentioned in other sources concerning the Bird's Opening, Taylor must have known it. It is strange that he does not even mention this possibility for Black. I think that there are some hidden possibilities for Black, if he plays -f5 before development of King's Knight - then we have Stonewall vs. Stonewall -positions, where White has some problems with the dark-squared Bishop. You can of course avoid this with 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.Ne5!?, but then You are pretty much on Your own, because Taylor gives just little information about it. The good news is that he seems to recommend 3.Ne5 with 4.c4!?, which in my opinion is the best fourth move alternative, if You are after full point. So at least You get a good hint where to start Your own research, if You want to play 3.Ne5!?.

4) The Chapter of the From's Gambit:
The revival of the old line 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Ne5 Bxe5 7.dxe5 Qxd1+ 8.Kxd1 Nc6 9.Nc3! is interesting and could be a good alternative, if You like to avoid complications and play endgames or queenless middlegames with the advantage of Bishop pair. However, Black can try to mix things with 6.-Qf6!? and this possibility should have been handled. This is a minor problem, as Taylor gives You good insight to the main line of 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6
3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 g5 5.g3.

If You want to have complementary material to this book, I would recommend You to get the Big Bird Database by Sid Pickard.

Poorly Organized.......2006-05-03

I own perhaps 20 books on the Bird's and this is one of the worse. Mostly because the material is so poorly organized; no real attempt is made to sort through the (admittedly tangled) move orders/motifs/variations in this opening. Also, the author seems to have a 'bad attitude' even though he plays the opening and has several examples in the book. The section on the Leningrad Dutch-Reversed is better than the others but still lifeless.

The entire Everyman opening series has deteriorated a great deal the past two years and I'm about done buying any new ones, especially if they are as bad as Bird's Opening.

The Bird Flies High Again... (You KNEW a pun was coming sooner or later... :) ).......2006-03-08

Ms. Malter's review was so good and so thorough that she creates a very difficult act to follow. But I will try, in a short review. I played the Bird MANY years ago on occasion, and I manhandled it. In my incapable hands, the Bird not only couldn't fly, it couldn't even get out of the egg. Tim Taylor's book covers the main (and some subsidiary) lines very well, and has made me rethink my conviction that the Bird was a dodo. In particular, his advocacy of the Nc3 lines over the Qe1 lines (which I have a doubtful opinion of even in the Dutch) gives me new hope that perhaps I CAN play this underrated opening. Like Ms. Malter, I am not overly effusive about the Bird, but I have played almost every first move (except 1.a4, 1.h3, 1.h4, and 1.g4), and I like to vary my routine. The Bird might be a very good opening to spring on other class players.

Thank you, Ms. Malter, for the best review I have seen for a chessbook (including my own) for a VERY long time... And thank you, Tim Taylor, for writing a very good book.

At last an Excellent book on the not so famous 1. f4 !!!.......2006-02-20

What a book by Timothy Taylor !! Being a non orhtodox chess player I was looking for good books on the Bird. Some older books like the ones by Andrew Soltis does exists but they are more for less advanced player. I think that when you are ready to play 1. f4 you are at least an intermediate to advanced player, because this opening can put your play into bizarre formation right from the start. The book deals with everything from 1. f4, d5, 1. f4, c5, 1. f4, Nf6, 1. f4, e5, etc... The from gambit is very well explained with two main lines (... g5 variation and the Ng5 variation) but also less common approach by white. All the other main lines are analysed in great details, and I think that this is the first book on the Bird that goes as deep as this. After reading this book I finally understood why and when to put the Queen bishop on the b2 square and when not to do so. This is very well explained with many many many other details on every single main lines or other lines that you can imagine. The book is design in a way that each variation can be unsderstood not only for which move to make, but also for its positionnal approach. Overall, if you want to play a non orthodox opening as white, the Bird may be for you and this book is an excellent choice. A last word : the author makes it clear that your chess friends may laugh at you when you play 1. f4, until you start winning against them... and you will because this book is a gem !

A good book on a mediocre chess opening.......2006-01-10

The most popular opening moves are, in order, 1 e4, 1 d4, 1 Nf3, and 1 c4. 1 f4 is sixth (behind 1 g3 and not far ahead of 1 b3). And there's a reason for that. 1 f4 is not the best opening move. Matter of fact, it's one of the worst in winning percentage.

Some people say that the purpose of an opening is to reach a playable middle game. But that's misleading at best. You play chess to win, especially against a much weaker opponent. Or, perhaps, against a strong opponent, draw. And chess openings ought to help you reach these goals. Maybe you'll decide that a certain opening fits your style, or that you know it well, or that it doesn't fit your opponent's style. Maybe you even have some specific tactical threats in mind to win material, get a big center, get an overwhelming outpost for a piece, get an open file, trash your opponent's pawn structure, or destroy her King safety. Or perhaps you plan to build up your position slowly, reducing your opponent's mobility, options, or threats while you either build up a dangerous attack or force a simplification to a winning endgame.

However, especially against weak opponents, I think you want to give Black a chance to lose right in the opening. If Black makes some key error there, you shouldn't need middle-game heroics to win. As for the endgame, if there is one at all, it ought to be terribly lopsided. And in this book, we do indeed see some games where Black does in fact make some key errors but even Masters with White still can't find a way to win. That's my experience as well: I've played many games on both sides of 1 f4 (and several on both sides of 1 f4 e5), and Black has done rather well in those games.

White's most common idea after 1 f4 is to slowly build up a Kingside attack, playing the opening as a Dutch with a move in hand. But is it dangerous enough? Is that extra move really worth much, or is it simply too committal? Well, if you find that weak opponents do well against you in that opening, maybe you ought not keep trying 1 f4 against them.

In this book, Timothy Taylor argues that the Bird is indeed dangerous enough to use against strong players and even against weaker ones. And he shows some lines where one can use that extra tempo in the Dutch after 1 f4 d5. But he does not recommend the Stonewall (where White puts pawns on c3, d4, e3, and f4, with a Knight on f3). Sometimes, one can transpose into a favorable version of it, but in general, the extra tempo is not very useful and the weaknesses (the hole at e4 and the restricted Queen's Bishop) are permanent. A slightly better line is the Antoshin (pawns on c3, d3, e4, and f4, with a Knight on f3 and Queen on c2). But this also fails to give White much against a prepared opponent. Even better is a reversed Leningrad, say 1 f4 d5 2 Nf3 g6 3 g3 Bg7 4 Bg2 Nf6 5 0-0 0-0 6 d3 c5 7 c3. White is threatening 8 e4, but Taylor notes that Black can try to stop this move or even get a very playable game with 7...b6, allowing it.

Some folks suggest that Black play what Taylor calls "the recipe" against the Bird, with 1 f4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 e3 Bg4, followed by ...Nbd7, ...Bxf3, and ...e5. But as the author shows, this leads to unexpectedly wild and unclear lines. If Black wants to play an early Bg4, Taylor suggests 1 f4 d5 2 Nf3 Bg4 3 e3 Nd7 4 h3 Bxf3 5 Qxf3 e5.

White often tries a Queenside fianchetto, which can also arise from 1 b3. And here, Taylor explains that 1 f4 d5 2 Nf3 c5 3 e3 Nc6 is an error by Black (3...g6 is correct). After 3...Nc6 the pin with 4 Bb5 is a problem. On the other hand, if White tries to go straight into a Queenside fianchetto, with 1 f4 d5 2 e3 Nf6 3 b3, Black simply plays 3...d4, and probably already stands better.

Taylor's recommendation for Black is the Classical, which goes 1 f4 d5 2 Nf3 g6 3 e3 Bg7 4 Be2 Nf6 5 0-0 0-0 6 d3 c5. Most folks with White then go for a Kingside attack with Qe1 (and usually c3 as well), often followed by Qh4. Taylor doesn't like Qe1 at all (neither do I), and he advises us to play 7 Nc3 instead.

This book has fifty pages on the From Gambit (1 f4 e5). Yes, White can transpose to a King's Gambit with 2 e4, but as Taylor shows, it is better to just take that pawn. The way that I do it (Taylor shows this as well) is 1 f4 e5 2 fxe5 d6 3 Nf3 dxe5 4 Nxe5 Bd6 5 Nf3 (transposing to the 3 exd6 line). After 5...g5, 6 g3 is good for White. So Black winds up with 5...Nf6 6 d4. Now what? If 6...0-0 7 e4 is good for White. Best is 6...Ng4 7 Qd3 c5 8 Qe4+ Be6 9 d5. White can also try 9 Qxb7 here, or the totally wild 9 Ng5.

The book ends with some minor lines, such as 1 f4 f5 2 e4 with a Swiss Gambit (a reversed From). And there's also 1 f4 c5, where White is best off with 2 Nf3 g6 3 e4, with a Grand Prix attack against the Sicilian.

Taylor shows us a bunch of very good games, some of them played by World Champions.

I'm not a big fan of Bird's Opening, but I highly recommend this book.

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