Need a black opening without a lot of book

Thanks for all the replies. There is a lot to think about and go over!

My point of asking this, is that despite knowing general ideas - King safety, development, center - some get themselves into really awkward positions as black. 

So (@ DrSpudnik) my point is to get them to a place where they can still have viable positions.  Too often, they make irreversible mistakes in the first few moves because of a lack of a few opening moves.  I show them many options - but I don't know or have seen them all. 

Good openings for some of my players tend to be ones where if you move a piece out of order, you aren't in a world of hurt.

Neil

What's the point of playing inferior openings just to cut down on book learning? Get the good moves (1...c5, 1...e5, 1..c6, 1...e6) on the board, learn a general plan and make sure you learn from your mistakes! That is far better than playing a hypermodern opening passively, getting into a losing position and learning little about your game!

 This is a very good book!

CoachMott,

The Tiger and Dragon is for you!! Check out the available download:

Chess Systems in the "Other" section of the download area.(Look for the Yin/Yang symbol)

For more info, check out my post to this forum, "Chess Systems, The Whole Enchilada".

Ah yes Volrun, that Opening book from Seirawan was my day-before-tournament study for many years. Since taking nearly a decade off from chess his ideas about the KIA and KID are all I can still remember. The KIA has been giving me very strong results for white compared to mediocre results for the KID as black...but I feel that the rust on my game is going to be exposed with black regardless of the opening I choose, the book knowledge simply is gone (and all my books are in storage nearly 5000 miles away).