László Tapasztó Binet (born September 5, 1930, Orosháza, Hungary) is a Hungarian–Venezuelan chess master.
He twice participated in the Hungarian Chess Championship, in 1954 (won by László Szabó) and 1955 (won by Gedeon Barcza), 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 (1964, 1966, 1971, 1983, 1990, and 1995),[1] played at Caracas 1967 (zonal, Miguel Cuéllar won),[2] and represented Venezuela in Chess Olympiads three times (1964, 1988, 1990).[3]
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.[4]