The Chess Course, authored by FI. Praful Zaveri (India’s first ‘FIDE Instructor’) is a complete easy- to-use primer for self-study. It is also a tool for trainers to use it as a teaching manual. The basic principles and concepts in this 250-pages large A-4 size book is explained in simple but entertaining way through 352 diagrams and this is followed by 357 test positions for beginning and intermediate players.