David Polland

American chess player

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]

## References

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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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