First opening repertoire for learning purposes

I'm glad you like it! :) If there's any other lines you want me to elaborate on too just let me know.

As a side note I'll give another sample repertoire which some people might find useful and was something I worked on for a little while back when I was deciding what openings to play. This came about during a quest to create the most economical repertoire I could while at the same time using sound lines.

As white you play the English with 2.g3. 1.c4 is just as good as e4 or d4, but doesn't have nearly as much theory.

As black you play the Accelerated Dragon, Gruenfeld, and Symetrical English vs. e4, d4 and c4 respectively.

In this way no matter what color you play or what your opponent throws at you you end up in very similar structures (kingside fianchetto, c-pawn push at some point, and controlling the d4/d5 square). The idea is that you can become super-familiar with these positions since that's all you play.

The reason I abandoned this is because it was too economical. It was bad for my chess growth in that I wasn't exposed to a variety of structures, and even worse it became incredibley boring! My current repertoire has just enough variety within itself to keep things interesting. It could work for someone else though and would probably suit an intermediate or advanced player that has little time to study and who wants one type of position that they could focus on and master.

It seems to me to be a good guess that Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014) would be of interest to steinbil. http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html . Maybe also Starting Out: Open Games by GM Glenn Flear (2010) https://web.archive.org/web/20140626232452/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen134.pdf .

I'll second that recommendation about Openings for Amateurs. It has some great recommendations in there. That's where I learned about the line against the Sicilian I mentioned with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4.

I think someone could get by all the way up to maybe A-class with just that book and maybe Fundamental Chess Openings as a reference.

I wrote a blog post on this topic.

http://chess-for-engineers.blogspot.com/2015/05/openings-for-beginners.html

The October 2014 issue of Chess Life ran an article about 1 e4 c5 2 c3 . Also, perhaps look at Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian by John Emms (2008) https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022143/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen116.pdf and The Complete c3 Sicilian by Evgeny Sveshnikov (2010) https://web.archive.org/web/20140626234618/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen141.pdf . There is also the mult-part series that has been going in Informant since #119.