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David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born inReigate, was a Britishchess player and writer. As an amateur, he tied for fifth place in the 1949British Championship atFelixstowe. He was the Britishcorrespondence chess champion in 1944 and the London Chess Champion in 1948. He played in theChess Olympiad at Helsinki in 1952.

Hooper was one of eight children and attended theWhitgift School, Croydon.^[1]

Hooper was an expert in thechess endgame and in chess history of the nineteenth century. He is best known for his chess writing, includingThe Oxford Companion to Chess (1992 withKen Whyld),Steinitz (Hamburg 1968, in German), andA Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames (London 1950).

• 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{{citation}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Hooper, David;Whyld, Kenneth (1992),The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press,ISBN 0-19-280049-3
• Hooper, David (1968),Practical Chess Endgames (Chess Handbooks), Law Book Co of Australasia,ISBN 0-7100-5226-X
• Cafferty, Bernard; Hooper, David (1979),A Complete Defence to 1P-K4: A Study of Petroff's Defence (2nd ed.), Pergammon Press,ISBN 0-08-024088-7
• Cafferty, Bernard; Hooper, David (1981),A Complete Defence to 1d4: A Study of the Queen's Gambit Accepted, Pergammon Press,ISBN 0-08-024102-6
• Hooper, David; Brandreth, Dale (1975),The Unknown Capablanca, B.T. Batsford,ISBN 978-0-486-27614-4

• Gaige, Jeremy (1987),Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McKay & Company, p. 178,ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
• Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977),Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. 143–44,ISBN 0-517-53146-1

• David Hooper player profile and games atChessgames.com
• Obituary
• “David Hooper (1915-98)” by Edward Winter
• Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998)

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