David Podhorzer

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David Podhorzer was an Austrian chess master.

He was Austrian Champion in 1934,[1] and represented his country in the 6th Chess Olympiad at Warsaw 1935, where played at first reserve board (+0 –4 =2).[2]

Podhorzer tied for 8-9th at the 15th Trebitsch Memorial at Vienna 1932 (Albert Becker won),[3] tied for 7-8th at the 16th Trebitsch-Turnier at Vienna 1933 (Ernst Grünfeld and Hans Müller won), tied for 7-9th at the 17th Trebitsch-Turnier at Vienna 1934 (Becker won), and tied for 6-7th at the 20th Trebitsch-Turnier at Vienna 1937 (Lajos Steiner won).[4] He took 4th place at the Döry Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 Ne4) tournament (Quadrangular), held in the Café Central, Vienna on 19-26 May 1937 (Paul Keres won).[5] During World War II, he tied for 5-6th at London 1940 (Easter, Harry Golombek and Paul List won).[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www2.chess.at/archiv/daten_staatsmeister/archiv_stm.xls
  2. ^ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
  3. ^ Schachserver der Wiener Zeitung (Austria)
  4. ^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
  5. ^ Chess Notes by Edward Winter
  6. ^ Bad Elster 1940
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