==Biografia=====Contesto familiare===Bernard van Orley nacque in una famiglia originaria del Lussemburgo, discendente dai "Seigneurs d'Ourle" (o d"'Orley". ###>In 2005, he finished second at the Tallinn (Keres Memorial) rapid event, behind Alexey Shirov but ahead of such luminaries as Anatoly Karpov and Boris Gelfand.