László Tapasztó
László Tapasztó Binet is a Hungarian–Venezuelan chess master.
He twice participated in the Hungarian Chess Championship, in 1954 and 1955, and won a local tournament in Budapest in 1955. He fled Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and finally became a Venezuelan citizen.
Tapasztó won the Venezuelan Chess Championship six times, played at Caracas 1967, and represented Venezuela in Chess Olympiads three times.
At the end of the 1990s, he moved to the United States, where he played in the New York State championships at Saratoga Springs 2000 and Rochester 2001. Unfortunately, he had a stroke in 2005, but continues to play at the Rochester Chess Center.
