Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian chess inventor
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Place of Birth: Jaipur, India
About Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati
- Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (born 3 September 2002) is an Indian student who invented a six-player variant of chess at the age of 9 with assistance from his father.
- He earned a patent for his invention in 2012, making him the youngest patent-holder in India at that time.
- It also made him world's youngest differently-abled patent holder. For his invention Bhati received the CavinKare Ability Special Recognition Award and the Sri Balaji Society's Child Innovator Award.
- He has since designed and received patents for twelve- and sixty-player versions of his game, with his boards capable of 100 distinct variations altogether.Besides circular chess, Bhati has developed a ramp system enabling easy access to vehicles for the disabled.
- In 2014 he was presented a Dr.
- Batra's Positive Health Award by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- In 2019 he was presented a National Award of Government of India for 'Outstanding Creative Child (Male)-2019' from Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment by Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu on the occasion of United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Vigyan Bhavan New Delhi.
- Being National Awardee, he was also invited, along with other awardees at Rashtrapati Bhavan by President of India Ram Nath Kovind for interaction and blessings.Bhati suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair.
- He credits his passion for invention to his admiration of British physicist Stephen Hawking: "I want to be like Hawking who became a famous scientist despite suffering from motor neuron disease."
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