| Jozef Boey | |
| Full Name: | Jozef Martin Boey |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Antwerp, Belgium |
| Death Place: | Vosselaar, Belgium |
| Peakrating: | 2435 (July 1973) |
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).
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]
Boey played for Belgium in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries:[9]
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.