David Vincent Hooper

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David Vincent Hooper or David Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. As an amateur, he got fifth place in the 1949 British Championship at Felixstowe. He was famous for being a correspondence chess champion in 1944 and known as the "London Chess Champion" in 1948.

Early life

Hooper was a child who had 7 siblings. He studied at Whitgift School in Croydon.

Chess

Hooper was an expert in chess, specially endgames. He was known in the chess history of the nineteenth century. He is best known for his chess writing, including The Oxford Companion to Chess (1992 with Ken Whyld), Steinitz (Hamburg 1968, in German), and A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames (London 1950).

Books made by Hooper

• Hooper, David (1970), A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames, Bell & Hyman, ISBN 0-7135-1761-1
• Euwe, Max; Hooper, David (1959), A Guide to Chess Endings, Dover (1976 reprint), ISBN 0-486-23332-4 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280049-3
• Hooper, David (1968), Practical Chess Endgames (Chess Handbooks), Law Book Co of Australasia, ISBN 0-7100-5226-X
• Cafferty, Bernard; Hooper, David (1979), A Complete Defence to 1P-K4: A Study of Petroff's Defence (2nd ed.), Pergammon Press, ISBN 0-08-024088-7
• Cafferty, Bernard; Hooper, David (1981), A Complete Defence to 1d4: A Study of the Queen's Gambit Accepted, Pergammon Press, ISBN 0-08-024102-6
• Hooper, David; Brandreth, Dale (1975), The Unknown Capablanca, B.T. Batsford, ISBN 978-0-486-27614-4

References

Further reading

• Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McKay & Company, p. 178, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
• Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. 143–44, ISBN 0-517-53146-1