David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915- May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. Events 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the Throne Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Reigate is a historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs, and in the London commuter belt. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. As an amateur, he tied for fifth place in the 1949 British Championship at Felixstowe. The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. He was the British correspondence chess champion in 1944 and the London Chess Champion in 1948. Correspondence chess is Chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence usually through a Correspondence chess server, through email or by He played in the Chess Olympiad at Helsinki in 1952. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other
Hooper was an expert in the chess endgame and in chess history of the nineteenth century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar 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). Kenneth Whyld ( March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British Chess author and researcher best known as the co-author (with
Books 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
- Hooper, David & Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (second ed. Machgielis (Max Euwe (last name is pronounced /øwə/ ( May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch Chess Grandmaster Kenneth Whyld ( March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British Chess author and researcher best known as the co-author (with The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference Book on Chess written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. ), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280049-3
References
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McKay & Company, pp. Jeremy Gaige (born 1927 is an American Chess archivist and journalist 178, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- Golombek, Harry, ed. Harry Golombek OBE ( March 1[[ 911]]– January 7 1995) was a British Chess International Master and honorary grandmaster (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. 143–144, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
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