Róża Maria Herman was a Polish chess

Chess

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 master.

In June 1935, she took 4th at the 1st Polish Championship in Warsaw (Regina Gerlecka

Regina Gerlecka

Regina Gerlecka was a Polish chess master.In January 1935, she won Warsaw championships. In June 1935, she won the 1st Polish Women Championship in Warsaw. In August 1935, she took 2nd, behind Vera Menchik, in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship in Warsaw.She tied for 5-7th in women's...

 won). In August 1935, she tied for 6-7th at the 5th Women's World Chess Championship

Women's World Chess Championship

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 in Warsaw (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...

 won).

She took 11th at the women's super tournament in 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). and finished 6th at Warsaw 1937 (2nd POL-ch; Gerlecka won). In August 1937, she tied for 10-16th at the 6th Women's World Chess Championship in Stockholm (Vera Menchik won). In 1939, she tied for 1st-2nd with Gerlecka at the Warsaw Women's Championship.

After World War II

World War II

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, Herman took 16th at the 8th Women's World Chess Championship in Moscow 1949/50 (Ludmila Rudenko won). She was twice Polish Champion at Łódź 1949 and Torun 1950, and Sub-Champion at Częstochowa 1951.

Awarded the WIM title in 1950.

She was a doctor of medicine, and lived in Łódź.