Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
O'Kelly in 1961
Personal information
Full nameAlbéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway
Born(1911-05-17)17 May 1911
Anderlecht, Belgium
Died3 October 1980(1980-10-03) (aged 69)
Brussels, Belgium
Chess career
CountryBelgium
Title
ICCF World Champion1959–62
Peak rating2460 (January 1977)
ICCF rating2529 (July 1992)

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