Darpan Inani

Born: 14 February 1994

• He is a prolific blind Indian chess player from Vadodara.
• He is currently the highest rated visually impaired chess player in India with an ELO rating of 2117 as of October 2019.
• He was a bronze medalist at the 2013 World Junior Championship in Belgrade.
• He is the youngest player to have ever won the National blind chess championships.
• He is the only Indian visually impaired chess player to have ever won international first prize at the Creon open chess tournament in France in August 2018.
• This was a historic moment for Indian chess when a visually impaired player won first prize in an international open sighted tournament in his rating category.
• He is honoured with the Yuva Ratna award by All India Marwari Yuva Manch in April 2018 in Siliguri, West Bengal.
• He is the recipient of the Navratna Award – 2018 awarded by Yuma Television.
• He has featured in HDFC life commercial.

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