Darpan Inani is a prolific blind Indian chess player and a Chartered Accountant from Vadodara. He is currently the highest-rated visually impaired chess player in India, with an ELO rating of 2135 as of January 2020. He won a bronze medal on his respective board in the 16th World Chess Olympiad for visually impaired held in Greece in 2021. He was also 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 a commercial for HDFC Life.