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Regina Gerlecka (2 March 1913 – 12 March 1983) was a Polish
Regina Gerlecka (2 March 1913 – 12 March 1983) was a Polish chess player
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In January 1935, she won the Warsaw
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championships. In June, Gerlecka won the inaugural Polish women's championship, which took place in Warsaw. Two months later, she finished second, behind Vera Menchik
Vera Francevna Mencikova (, ''Vera Frantsevna Menchik''; ; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champ ...
, in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship
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, held alongside the 6th Chess Olympiad
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(known as the International Team Tournament back then), also held in Warsaw.
She tied for 5-7th places in the women's super-tournament at Semmering 1936, won by Sonja Graf
Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 – March 6, 1965) was a German and American chess player. She was a women's world championship runner-up and a two-time U.S. women's champion. In 2016, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
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. Gerlecka was again Polish women's champion in 1937, having shared 1st-2nd with Barbara Flerow-Bułhak. In August 1937, she tied for 10-16th in the Women's World Championship
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in Stockholm
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, which was won by Vera Menchik again. In 1939, Gerlecka tied for 1st-2nd with Róża Herman
Róża Maria Herman (16 January 1902 – 7 March 1995) was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the title FIDE titles#Woman International Master, International Woman Master by FIDE in 1950.
In June 1935, she took 4th place at the first Polish C ...
in the Warsaw championships.
After World War II
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, she took 3rd at the three-player 1949 Polish women's championship in Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...
, won by Róża Herman.
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