Darpan Inani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Darpan Inani

Indian chess player

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1994

Place of Birth: Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Profession: chess player

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Darpan Inani

  • Darpan Inani (born 1994) 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 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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