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David S. Polland (born 1908) was an American chess master. [1]

He tied for 2nd-4th at New York 1930/31 (Marshall Chess Club Championship, Arthur Dake won), [2] tied for 6-7th at Rome 1931 (New York State Championship, Fred Reinfeld won), took 6th at Philadelphia 1936 (the 3rd ACF, U.S. Open Chess Championship, Israel Albert Horowitz won), [3] won at Chicago 1937 (the 4th ACF), [4] and won in the New York State Championship in 1937. [5] He tied for 3rd-4th at Boston 1938 (the 5th ACF, Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan won), tied for 6-7th at New York 1938 (the 2nd U.S. Chess Championship, Samuel Reshevsky won), [6] and tied for 8-11th at New York 1940 (the 3rd US-ch, Reshevsky won). [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Sports Statistics. Chess. Players
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-04-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-10. Retrieved 2010-02-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "New York State Chess Champions 1878–1972" . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  6. ↑ Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938 Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Bad Elster 1940 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine


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