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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. August 31 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Reigate is an historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs. ...
Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ...
The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. ...
For the Aircraft manufacturer, see Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe Felixstowe is a North Sea seaport in Suffolk, England. ...
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon. ...
The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place in even years. ...
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). In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of the Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English. ...
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
Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced /ø:wə/) (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster and Mathematician. ...
Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of the Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English. ...
References - Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McKay & Company, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6, at 178
- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, ISBN 0-517-53146-1, at 143–144
Harry Golombek (March 1, 1911–January 7, 1995), was a British chess player and honorary grandmaster. ...
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