How Old Is Israel Zilber? Israel Zilber Birthday
Israel Zilber was born on June 25, 1933 and is 90 years old now.
Birthday: June 25, 1933
How Old - Age: 90
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Israel Zilber - Biography
Israel Zilber (June 25, 1933, Riga, Latvia) is a chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1958.
He was Riga champion in 1962 and 1974, and "Daugava" champion in 1962 and won second place in 1965. In the Championship of USSR he reached semifinals in 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1962.
After 1974, Zilber immigrated first to Israel and then to the United States. In 1979, he played in Hastings International Chess Congress; in 1980 Zilber won the Masters Open tournament in Biel and a year later he won Limoges tournament. Also his name can be found between the participants of Manchester Benedictine in 1980.
His life was not very successful in the United States, however. Zilber would end up homeless on the streets of New York City through most of the 1980s and played in Washington Square Park. This setting was the story about the park in the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Details of Zilber's life in the end are controversial – an unconfirmed story states that during one hard winter he froze to death. But in another version he is not listed in the Social Security Death Index.
