Digging around Amazon and reading the reviews....
What about this?
“Kaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White”?
Solid Opening Repertoire Book(s)?
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Kaufman's New Repertoire is written for very advanced players. That is, it is not intended to instruct the beginner thru intermediate player.
I believe the Italian Game (Giuoco Piano) would be most appropriate for a beginner-novice, or any player for that matter. It's an opening you can grow with and play for the rest of your chess career, including at the highest levels...
A very instructive introductory opening repertoire book for White playing 1.e4 featuring the Italian Game is My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Vincent Moret. Also, his instruction for how to play the Grand Prix Attack as White against 1. e4 c5 (Sicilian Defense) is outstanding, the best I have seen. Check out my review of the book (search 'Moret') here...
Good Chess Openings Books For Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-openings-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Excerpts from Moret's White and Black opening repertoire books here...
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White...
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9033.pdf
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for Black...
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9050.pdf
Chessable also has courses based on Moret's two opening repertoire books for White & Black....
https://www.chessable.com/chess-openings/s/moret
The Italian Game is played at the highest levels...
Winning With The Slow But Venomous Italian by Muller & Souleidis...
read the authors' preface and introduction (book excerpt) here.....they also explain (in the Introduction) why they prefer the Italian Game over the Ruy Lopez (Spanish Opening)...
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Winning_with_the_Slow_but_Venomous_Itali/HokfDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szr8mNLKtPg
https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Venomous-Italian-Easy-Grasp/dp/9056916742
Alternatively, for a solid, strictly classical opening repertoire for White and Black of the type you referred to, I would recommend...
Better Chess Openings by J.E.F. Kaan
check out the book excerpt here...
I succinctly describe this repertoire in my blog article (above) as well.
Finally.....browse...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Hi,
I’m looking for opening repertoire books (rather than individual openings/defences) that build on “Discovering Chess Openings” by Emms
—> It’s for my daughter (age 11) and myself. I’ve been helping her through several books including Mullers’s Chess Endgames for Kids (referring to Fundamental Chess Endings by the same author). We also have “Simple Attacking Plans” by Fred Wilson and a Chess Tactics book. She’s finished Journey Through the Chess Kingdom and the Chesskid videos herself.
So... the positions she heads towards are classical opening principles - so Giuoco Piano as White, Alapin Sicilian, Nimzo Indian, Caro Kann.
Her Xmas list includes “A chess openings book” - so I’m wondering if there’s anything that’s appropriate for age that sticks to classical central development?
(reading age = 14 according to her school)