David Vincent Hooper
{{Short description|British chess player and writer (1915–1998)}}
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| birth_place = Reigate, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1998|5|3|1915|8|31}}
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David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 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.
Early life
Hooper was one of eight children and attended the Whitgift School, Croydon.{{Cite web |last=Upham |first=John |date=2020-05-03 |title=Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998) |url=https://britishchessnews.com/2020/05/03/remembering-david-vincent-hooper-31-viii-1915-03-v-1998/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=British Chess News |language=en-GB}}
Chess
Hooper was 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 1950).
Books by Hooper
- {{Citation
|last=Hooper|first=David
|title=A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames
|year=1970
|publisher=Bell & Hyman
|isbn=0-7135-1761-1}}
- {{citation
| last=Euwe
| first=Max
| author-link=Max Euwe
| last2=Hooper
| first2=David
| title=A Guide to Chess Endings
| year=1959
| publisher=Dover (1976 reprint)
| isbn=0-486-23332-4
| url-access=registration
| url=https://archive.org/details/guidetochessendi00euwe
}}
- {{citation
| last=Hooper | first=David
| last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author-link2=Kenneth Whyld
| year=1992
| title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | edition=2nd
| publisher=Oxford University Press
| isbn=0-19-280049-3
}}
- {{citation
| last=Hooper | first=David
| year=1968
| title=Practical Chess Endgames (Chess Handbooks)
| publisher=Law Book Co of Australasia
| isbn=0-7100-5226-X
}}
- {{citation
| last=Cafferty | first=Bernard
| last2=Hooper | first2=David
| year=1979
| title=A Complete Defence to 1P-K4: A Study of Petroff's Defence
| publisher=Pergammon Press
|edition=2nd
| isbn=0-08-024088-7
}}
- {{citation
| last=Cafferty | first=Bernard
| last2=Hooper | first2=David
| year=1981
| title=A Complete Defence to 1d4: A Study of the Queen's Gambit Accepted
| publisher=Pergammon Press
| isbn=0-08-024102-6
}}
- {{citation
| last=Hooper | first=David
| last2=Brandreth | first2=Dale
| year=1975 | title=The Unknown Capablanca
| publisher= B.T. Batsford
| isbn=978-0-486-27614-4
}}
References
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Further reading
- {{citation
| last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
| year=1987
| title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
| publisher=McKay & Company
| page=178
| isbn=0-7864-2353-6}}
- {{citation
| editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek
| year=1977
| title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess
| publisher=Batsford
| pages=143–44
| isbn=0-517-53146-1}}
External links
- {{Chessgames.com player|47674|David Hooper}}
- [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980512/ai_n14155787 Obituary]
- [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/hooper.html “David Hooper (1915-98)” by Edward Winter]
- [https://britishchessnews.com/2020/05/03/remembering-david-vincent-hooper-31-viii-1915-03-v-1998/ Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998)]
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