These separations from her family gave her a certain firmness of character and reserved attitude to strangers she would keep all her life.

[2] After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Roza Te began to participate in tournaments in Western Europe.

[2] She met her husband, Daniel Lallemand, and obtained French nationality in 1997.

Roza Lallemand died in August 2008 of a heart attack after returning from the French Chess Championship, where she finished sixth in the Women's National, a competition that seems to have made her very tired.

[3] The French Chess Federation commemorated her in 2009 by calling the women's fast games championship of France the "Trophée Roza Lallemand".

[4] In 2000 Roza Lallemand became the first female French international grandmaster after Chantal Chaudé de Silans, who had obtained the honorary title in recognition of her performance when the official title did not yet exist.

Roza Lallemand participated several times in the Chess Olympiad in the French women's team.

[5] Lallemand became European women's team champion in 2001 in León, Spain.

[9] She was considered a free player, with a "high"[10] game and a good sense of initiative.

[11] Gilles Mirallès described her after she died as "capable of carrying out sudden attacks" and wrote that she was "feared for her brilliant sacrifices.

"[12] He saw her as representing a "romantic" spirit of chess that had become all too rare in the modern age.

[12] A game played by Roza Lallemand (white) against Maia Lomineichvili at the fourth round of chess in the European Championship of Nations in Gothenburg in 2005.