Country: | Israel |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1954 |
Birth Place: | Astana, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Grandmaster (1998) | |
Fideid: | 2801612 |
Peakrating: | 2560 (July 1997) |
Yaacov Zilberman (born 26 May 1954) is an Israeli chess grandmaster.
He played for Israel on the second reserve board in the 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila 1992.[1]
He shared first place with Robert Hübner and Iván Morovic Fernández at Havana 1998 (Capablanca Memorial, Elite). He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1998.[2]
He competed at the 2017 Maccabiah Games.[3]
Three times he played in the European Chess Club Cup, in 1992 with Hapoel Tel Aviv (reaching the semifinals), in 1997 and in 2001 with Herzliya Chess Club.[4]