Aristide Gromer was a French chess

Chess

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 master.

Gromer was thrice French Champion (1933, 1937, and 1938).

He tied for 5-6th at Paris 1923 (Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn

Victor Kahn was a Russian–French chess master.He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He won the Copenhagen Championship in 1916. He also played at Hamburg 1916....

 won), took 3rd at Biarritz 1926 (André Chéron

André Chéron

André Chéron was a French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies. He lived in Switzerland for many years...

 and Frederic Lazard

Frédéric Lazard

Frédéric Lazard was a French chess master, problemist and journalist.He lived in Paris where played in many local tournaments. He took twice 4th place in 1905, shared 3rd in 1908, took 3rd in 1909, shared 2nd behind H...

 won), took 2nd, behind Chéron, at Saint-Cloude 1929, shared 2nd with Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky was a Russian chess master, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Saint Petersburg, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of his life.-Biography:...

, at Paris 1930, took 2nd, behind Aimé Gibaud, at Rouen 1930, took 9th at Paris 1933 (Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won), took 6th at Sitges 1934 (Andor Lilienthal

Andor Lilienthal

Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

 won), took 2nd, behind Baldur Hoenlinger, at Paris (L'Echiquier) 1938. As a Champion of France, he won a match against Champion of Belgium, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster , and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. He was also a chess writer...

, (2.5 : 1.5) in December 1938.

Gromer played for France in Chess Olympiads:

• In 1930, at third board in 3rd Chess Olympiad
  3rd Chess Olympiad
  The 3rd Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg, Germany...
  
   in Hamburg (+4 –6 =1);
• In 1931, at second board in 4th Chess Olympiad
  4th Chess Olympiad
  The 4th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 11 and July 26, 1931, in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
  
   in Prague (+3 –9 =4);
• In 1939, at second board in 8th Chess Olympiad
  8th Chess Olympiad
  The 8th Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs , comprised an 'open' tournament, as well as a Women's World Championship contest...
  
   in Buenos Aires (+6 –4 =7).

In September 1939, when World War II

World War II

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 broke out, Gromer, along with many other participants of the 8th Chess Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, et al.) decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
He won at Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata) 1940, followed by Franciszek Sulik

Franciszek Sulik

Franciszek Sulik was a Polish-Australian chess master.Before World War II, he lived in Lvov . In 1934, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Henryk Friedman, behind Stepan Popel, in the Lvov championship. In 1935, he tied for 8-9th in Warsaw...

, Carlos Guimard

Carlos Guimard

Carlos Enrique Guimard was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He was born in Santiago del Estero.-Biography:Guimard was thrice Argentine Champion. In 1936, he won the ARG-ch 15 Mayor, and in 1937 a match for the title against Roberto Grau . In 1937/38, he won a match against Luis Piazzini...

, etc. He took 7th at Aguas de Sao Pedro/São Paulo 1941 (Erich Eliskases

Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....

 and Guimard won). Gromer returned to France after the war and took part in the French Championship 1947, where he shared second place with Amédée Gibaud

Amédée Gibaud

Amédée Gibaud was a French chess master.He won the French Chess Championship four times and won the French correspondence championship three times...

 and Nicolas Rossolimo

Nicolas Rossolimo

Nicolas Rossolimo was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster. He was many times champion of Paris, France, and after relocating to the United States won the 1955 U.S. Open Championship...

. He died in Paris, at a psychiatric institution, though the date is not known.

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