László Tapasztó

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]

References
  1. "Los Campeones Nacionales de Venezuela". Archived from the original on 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
  2. "Zonals in the Americas and Africa". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  3. "Home". olimpbase.org.
  4. http://www.chessmetrics.com Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine


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