BobbyDigital80 wrote on 11/28/17 at 03:21:57:
Are there any recommendations in the books for an opening repertoire, or advice on how to pick openings?
There are chapters on openings, including many titled something like "A repertoire for white against the french defense", but I think the real idea behind them is teaching you how to study openings, and the basic themes behind them.
Just off the top of my head, the openings covered are:
As white:
Four knights (4. d4 I think)
Closed Sicilian
Advance French
Caro Kann Panov
then with d4 (later in the green books, after teaching all the e4 openings) he goes into colle zukertort, petrosian KID, and grunfeld russian system. No coverage of d4 with c4 as white, except vs grunfeld and KID.
As black:
Petroff, then French (Winawer)
QGD Lasker's Defense
QGA
If you look at Yusupov's games himself, he was fond of the queen's pawn game (d-pawn specials in chesspub terminology), especially the zukertort, but playing c4 against indians and sometimes slav, and as black the petroff, french, and QGD Lasker. So he pretty much preaches what he practiced.
I agree that openings aren't the important part of the book, and pretty much any openings would be fine for anyone studying this series.