David Vincent Hooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Vincent Hooper

British chess player

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1915

Place of Birth: Reigate, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1998

Profession: writer, chess player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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 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)