David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in
Reigate
Reigate ( ) is a town status in the United Kingdom, town in Surrey, England, around south of central London. The settlement is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Cherchefelle'', and first appears with its modern name in the 1190s. The ea ...
, was a British
chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...
player and writer. As an amateur, he tied for fifth place in the 1949
British Championship at
Felixstowe
Felixstowe ( ) is a port town and civil parish in the East Suffolk District, East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The estimated population in 2017 was 24,521. The Port of Felixstowe is the largest Containerization, containe ...
. He was the British
correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less commo ...
champion in 1944 and the London Chess Champion in 1948. He played in the
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Onli ...
at Helsinki in 1952.
Early life
Hooper was one of eight children and attended the
Whitgift School, Croydon.
Chess
Hooper was an expert in the
chess endgame
The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame. It begins when few pieces are left on the board.
The line between the middlegame and the endgame is often not clear, and may occur gradually or with ...
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).
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ObituaryRemembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998)
1915 births
1998 deaths
English chess players
English non-fiction writers
British chess writers
Sportspeople from Reigate
English male non-fiction writers
20th-century British chess players
20th-century English male writers
Chess Olympiad competitors
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