Barbara Flerow-Bułhak (23 May 1914 – August 1944) was a Polish chess master. She was a

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participant (1937). She was killed in the

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Biography

Barbara Flerow-Bułhak participated in the first two finals of the Polish Women's Chess Championship. In 1935, she ranked 7th place, while in 1937 she won the title of Polish Women's Chess vice-champion (both finals were played in

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). Also she participated in the Warsaw Women's Chess Championship twice, where in 1936 she ranked 2nd place, and in 1937 she shared together with Regina Gerlecka 1st – 2nd place. In 1937 in

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she participated in the

and shared 17th - 20th place (tournament won by

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 ...

). She was killed during the

, aged 30. She was exhumed in 1946 and reinterred in Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery.

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Barbara Flerow-Bułhak
at szachypolskie.pl 1914 births 1944 deaths Polish female chess players Polish people of Russian descent Warsaw Uprising insurgents Polish civilians killed in World War II 20th-century Polish chess players 20th-century Polish sportswomen {{Poland-chess-bio-stub