Jozef Boey

FIDE rating2280 (2009)Peak rating2435 (1973)ICCF rating2495 (1996)

Jozef Martin Boey (also spelled Josef, 16 May 1934 – 28 February 2016) was a Belgian chess player who held the FIDE title of International Master (IM, 1973) and the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GM, 1975). He was a four-time Belgian Chess Championship winner (1959, 1964, 1965, 1971).

Biography

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s Jozef Boey was one of Belgium's leading chess players. He four times won Belgian Chess Championships: in 1959 (together with Albéric O'Kelly de Galway),^[1] 1964,^[2] 1965, 1971 (together with Roeland Verstraeten).^[3] Jozef Boey twice played in World Chess Championship European Zonal Tournaments: in 1963, in Enschede he ranked 12th place,^[4] but in 1966, in The Hague he shared 11th–12th place.^[5] He has had several successes in international chess tournaments, include shared 2nd place in Amsterdam (1974, IBM international chess tournament B)^[6] and shared 2nd place in Roosendaal (1983).^[7]

Boey played for Belgium in the Chess Olympiads:^[8]

• In 1956, at first reserve board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+3, =5, -3),
• In 1962, at fourth board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+6, =7, -5),
• In 1966, at second board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana (+2, =11, -4),
• In 1968, at second board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+5, =5, -5),
• In 1970, at first board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+4, =11, -0),
• In 1972, at first board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+5, =5, -2),
• In 1974, at first board in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice (+6, =6, -4),
• In 1988, at third board in the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+2, =3, -4).

Boey played for Belgium in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries:^[9]

• In 1973, at first board in the 5th European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+0, =1, -1).

In the 1970s Boey devoted himself to the correspondence chess, in which he achieved significant results, being one of the world's leaders in the mid-1980s. Boey participated three times in the World Correspondence Chess Championship finals. The greatest his success was in the 7th final (1972-1976), in which he ranked 2nd place.^[10] In the other two finals he took 12th place (1975–1980, 8th final)^[11] and 7th place (1978–1984, 10th final).^[12]

Boey was a chemist by profession.

References

External links

• Jozef Martin Boey player details at ICCF
• Jozef Boey rating card at FIDE
• Jozef Martin Boey player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Josef Martin Boey Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Josef Boey rating card at FIDE at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-03-06)
• Josef Boey chess games at 365Chess.com