Regina Gerlecka was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 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.

In January 1935, she won Warsaw championships. In June 1935, she won the 1st Polish Women Championship

Polish Chess Championship

Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament , the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequently the olympiad team.The first men's championship took...

 in Warsaw. In August 1935, she took 2nd, behind Vera Menchik

Vera Menchik

Vera Menchik was a British-Czech chess player who gained renown as the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, defeating many of them, including future World Champion Max Euwe.The daughter of a Czech father...

, in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship

Women's World Chess Championship

The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....

 in Warsaw.

She tied for 5-7th in women's super-tournament at Semmering 1936 (Sonja Graf

Sonja Graf

Sonja Graf was a German chess master who also lived in Argentina and the United States. She was the Women's World Sub-Champion, two-time winner of the U.S...

 won). Gerlecka was again Polish Champion in 1937 (tied for 1st-2nd with Barbara Floerow-Bulhak). In August 1937, she tied for 10-16th in 6th Women's World Chess Championship in Stockholm (Vera Menchik won). In 1939, she tied for 1st-2nd with Róża Herman

Róza Herman

Róża Maria Herman was a Polish chess master.In June 1935, she took 4th at the 1st Polish Championship in Warsaw . In August 1935, she tied for 6-7th at the 5th Women's World Chess Championship in Warsaw .She took 11th at the women's super tournament in Semmering 1936...

 in Warsaw championships.

After World War II

World War II

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, she took 3rd at Łódź (POL-ch, Triangular; Róża Herman won).