Darpan Inani

Darpan Inani
Full name Darpan Inani
Country  India
Born (1994-02-14) 14 February 1994
Vadodara, India
Title Bronze at World Junior chess Championship for blind (2013)
FIDE rating 1985 (Aug 2018)
Peak rating 2053 (Nov 2013)

Darpan Inani (born 1994) is a prolific blind Indian chess player from Vadodara. He is the highest rated blind chess player in India with an ELO rating of 2053 as of Nov 2013.[1] He won the bronze medal at the World Junior chess Championship for the blind at Belgrade in 2013. He was 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 also honoured with the Yuva Ratna award by All India Marwari Yuva Manch in April 2018 in Siliguri, West Bengal.

Personal life

He was born to parents Satish Inani (father) and mother Vimala Inani (mother). As a young boy of 3 years, he was affected by the Steven Johnson Syndrome and lost his vision completely. He is an aspiring Chartered Accountant. He also plays the tabla and the harmonium. He has also taken vocal training in Indian classical music. He is a yellow belt in Karate.

Academics

He completed his entire schooling from a normal school, Baroda High school, Alkapuri, Vadodara. He was the only blind student there. Competing with the normal children, he seldom scored less than 90% and consistently scored a rank in top 3. He opted for commerce stream in his 11th std. Scoring 99.75 percentile in 12th std, he joined CA course. He has already cleared CA entrance and intermediates in first attempt and will be appearing for CA finals in November 2016. He completed his B.COM from Maharaja Sayajirav University. In 2015, he also appeared for CAT, an entrance exam for the most prestigious institute IIM, to pursue MBA. In his first attempt at CAT, he received calls from all the IIMs of the country barring IIM Ahmedabad. But finally, he rejected the admission offer from IIM Lucknow to pursue his CA and chess career. He plans to apply for IIM later in his career.

Career

Darpan won his first open district tournament (under 14) at Baroda in the year 2005. He beat sighted opponents to win the title.[2] He was youngest to win the National blind chess championships in Mumbai in July 2010.

He was the youngest to represent India at the World Blind Chess Championship in Serbia in 2010. He then represented India in the World junior chess championship for the visually challenged held at Rhodes in Greece in 2011.[3]

Darpan won the Chennai Open Chess tournament in 2011.[4] The Chennai Open had 300 players and he was only blind player in the fray. He wanted to prove that he could compete against normal sighted players.[5]

He won the bronze medal in the World Individual Junior chess Championship for the blind and visually impaired held at Serbia in September 2013. He scored 6/9 along with Damjan Jandric of Serbia. He overcame Damjan in the tie-break to take the third position.[6][7]

Darpan is coached by Mumbai based International Master Shekhar Sahu, who trains upcoming sighted and blind chess players.

Film

Darpan has featured in the award winning[8][9] Chess documentary film Algorithms directed by Ian McDonald.[10] Algorithms is a documentary on little known sporting field of Blind Chess in India. The film features three upcoming blind players who reveal their daily struggles, anxieties and hopes.

Contributions

Darpan is associated with Project checkmate, an initiative to spread blind chess in India. He has assisted this project with his inputs and advice and has also mentored its students.

Awards

Darpan is honoured with the Yuva Ratna award by All India Marwari Yuva Manch in April 2018 in Siliguri, West Bengal.

See also

References

  1. ↑ FIDE. "FIDE Chess Profile: Darpan Inani". FIDE. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Kumar Anand , Johnson TA (7 October 2012). "The inward eye". Indian Express. New Delhi. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Special Correspondent (9 July 2011). "Gongolli, Inani and Saikrishna for junior chess". The Hindu. Mumbai. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Hardy, James (27 January 2011). "Baroda-based Darpan Inani wins Chennai Open chess tournament". The Times Of India. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Hardy, James (27 January 2011). "Blind boy is cynosure of all eyes at Chennai Open chess". The Times Of India. Chennai. TNN. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Mohite, Manisha (1 September 2013). "Darpan Inani wins bronze at world junior blind chess". Mumbai. Mid Day. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Phatarpekar, Kushal (2 September 2013). "Inspired by Anand, Darpan wins historic chess bronze". Hindustan Times. Mumbai. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "India's Algorithms wins best film trophy at Film South Asia festival". Kathmandu. IANS. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "Algorithms wins award at Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris". IMDB. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Algorithms - The documentary film". Akampuram. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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