David S. Polland was an American chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He tied for 2nd-4th at New York 1930/31 (Marshall Chess Club

Marshall Chess Club

The Marshall Chess Club in New York City is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States, located in Greenwich Village. The club was formed in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall. It is a non-profit organization.-History:...

 Championship, Arthur Dake

Arthur Dake

Arthur Dake was an American chess master. He was born in Portland, Oregon and died in Reno, Nevada....

 won),
tied for 6-7th at Rome 1931 (New York State Championship, Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld was an American chess master and a prolific writer on chess and many other subjects, whose books are still read today.-Biography:...

 won), took 6th at Philadelphia 1936 (the 3rd ACF, U.S. Open Chess Championship

U.S. Open Chess Championship

The U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900.-History:Through 1938, the tournaments were organized by the Western Chess Association and its successor, the American Chess Federation .The United States Chess Federation ...

, Israel Albert Horowitz won), won at Chicago 1937 (the 4th ACF), and won in the New York State Championship in 1937. He tied for 3rd-4th at Boston 1938 (the 5th ACF, Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan

Isaac Kashdan

Isaac Kashdan was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. Kashdan was one of the world's best players in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was twice U.S. Open champion...

 won), tied for 6-7th at New York 1938 (the 2nd U.S. Chess Championship

U.S. Chess Championship

The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size...

, Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

won), and tied for 8-11th at New York 1940 (the 3rd US-ch, Reshevsky won).