{{short description|Belgian chess player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} '''Paul Devos''' (10 March 1911 – 14 June 1981) was a Belgian chess master.

Devos was seven times Belgian Champion (1933, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1945, and 1948). He finished second, behind Boruch Israel Dyner, at Brussels in 1933 but won the title as a player of the Belgian nationality.<ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121042620/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm |date=21 November 2009 }}</ref> In 1936 he won international BEL-ch, and finished third in national BEL-ch, both in Brussels.<ref>[http://users.skynet.be/a.okelly/Portret.htm Nieuwe pagina 3<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1937 he shared 1st with Alberic O'Kelly de Galway and drew a play-off match for the title (1.5 : 1.5).

He finished third at Brussels 1937 (''Quadrangular''), behind O'Kelly and Movsas Feigins and ahead of Emil Joseph Diemer,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-02-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210062551/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables8.htm |archivedate=10 December 2009 }}</ref> tied for 11&ndash;12th at Hastings 1945/46 (Savielly Tartakower won), tied for 9&ndash;11th at London 1946 (B tournament, Max Euwe won), and shared 2nd, behind Euwe, at Maastricht 1946.<ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/Tables%2017.htm 1946<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215941/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/Tables%2017.htm |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref>

Devos played twice for Belgium in Chess Olympiads; at Folkestone 1933 and Dubrovnik 1950.<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He also represented his country in friendly matches against The Netherlands (1947, 1950, 1959) and France (1948, 1949).

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