David Podhorzer (2 August 1907 – 27 January 1998) was an Austrian
chess
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master.
He was Austrian Champion in 1934, and represented his country in the 6th
Chess Olympiad
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at Warsaw 1935, where he played at first reserve board (+0 –4 =2).
Podhorzer tied for 8-9th at the 15th
Trebitsch Memorial Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was a chess competition organized by the family of Austrian silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in Vienna between 1907 and 1938.Albert Becker won), tied for 7-8th at the 16th Trebitsch-Turnier at Vienna 1933 (
Ernst Grünfeld
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Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950.
Life and career
Grünfeld was bor ...
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
Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.
Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,(née Schwarz) ...
won).
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
Paul Keres (; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five ...
won).
During
World War II
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, he tied for 5-6th at London 1940 (''Easter'',
Harry Golombek
Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948.
He was born in Lambeth t ...
and
Paul List
Pawel M. List ( he, פאול ליסט, russian: Павел Лист; Odessa, 9 September 1887 – London? 1954) was a Russian Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship.
He was born in Odessa, Ukr ...