David Vincent Hooper
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David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915- May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. As an amateur, he tied for fifth place in the 1949 British Championship at Felixstowe. He was the British correspondence chess champion in 1944 and the London Chess Champion in 1948. He played in the Chess Olympiad at Helsinki in 1952.
Hooper is an expert in the chess endgame and in 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 1970).
[edit] Books by Hooper
- A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames, by David Hooper, 1970, Bell & Hyman. ISBN 0-7135-1761-1.
- A Guide to Chess Endings, by Dr. Max Euwe and David Hooper, 1959, 1976, Dover. ISBN 0-486-23332-4.
- Hooper, David & Kenneth Whyld (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866164-9
[edit] References
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McKay & Company, pp. 178, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. 143–144, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
