Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

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Albéric O'Kelly de Galway (May 17, 1911, BrusselsOctober 3, 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian chess International Grandmaster, and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962.

He won the Belgian championships seven times (1937-1959) and was the chief arbiter of the world championship matches between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky (1966 and 1969).

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Preceded by
Viacheslav Ragozin
World Correspondence Chess Champion
1959–1962
Succeeded by
Vladimir Zagorovsky
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