Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (May 17, 1911 - October 3, 1980) was a Belgian Chess Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), the third ICCF World Champion in Correspondence Chess (1959–1962), as well as a professional chess writer and an arbiter.

O’Kelly de Galway won the Belgian Championship thirteen times between 1937 and 1959. He won first place in the Beverwijk Chess Tournament in 1946. He became one of Europe’s leading players in 1947 after winning the European Zonal Tournament in Hilversum, then shared first with Pirc in Teplice, and shared second in Venice. The next year he won in Sao Paulo ahead of Eliskases and Rossetto. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 then won the Dortmund Tournament in 1951. He won the Tournament in Utrecht in 1961. His highest rating according to the Chessmetrics historical rating system was 2644.

He was appointed International Arbiter in 1962, and he acted as Chief Arbiter of the World Championship matches between Tigran Petrosyan and Boris Spassky in 1966 and 1969. He acted as Arbiter for the Moscow Karpov-Korchnoi encounter in 1974.

O’Kelly was not only a chess talent but he was very good at acquiring languages as well: he could speak French, Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Russian and a little Italian. He published several books and articles often in languages other than French.

The O'Kelly Variation in the Sicilian Defence is named after him (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6).

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