{{short description|Austrian chess player}} '''David Podhorzer''' (2 August 1907 &ndash; 27 January 1998)<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/player/david_podhorzer Chessgames Profile]</ref> was an Austrian chess master.

He was Austrian Champion in 1934,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.chess.at/archiv/daten_staatsmeister/archiv_stm.xls |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815171150/http://www.chess.at/archiv/daten_staatsmeister/archiv_stm.xls |archive-date=2009-08-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and represented his country in the 6th Chess Olympiad at Warsaw 1935, where he played at first reserve board (+0 –4 =2).<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Podhorzer tied for 8-9th at the 15th Trebitsch Memorial at Vienna 1932 (Albert Becker won),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=177 |title=Schachserver der Wiener Zeitung (Austria)<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-10-01 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175442/http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=177 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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).<ref>[http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414132700/http://www.chessmetrics.com/ |date=April 14, 2006 }}</ref> 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).<ref>[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter37.html Chess Notes by Edward Winter<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> During World War II, he tied for 5-6th at London 1940 (''Easter'', Harry Golombek and Paul List won).<ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables11.htm Bad Elster 1940<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215743/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables11.htm |date=2007-09-27 }}</ref>

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