Youth who invented chess board for six players dies in Jaipur

JAIPUR: The youngest patent holder of India Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati passed away in Jaipur following cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
He suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease that made him wheelchair bound and eventually took his life. Bhati invented a circular chess board for six players in 2012 and patented the same at the age of nine. This made him the youngest patent holder of India and youngest patent holder with disability in the world.
Hridayeshwar’s father Sarovar Singh Bhati said that his son lived a proud life with positive approach. “He never let his disability become a hurdle in his life. In the end, he wasn’t able to move any part of his body except his fingers, eyes and brain activity. But he never let it impact him and kept smiling. I will remember my son as a braveheart who made our nation proud,” said Bhati.
He was awarded with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Pruaskar in 2020 and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind.
Soravar said, “There were six chess players in our apartment of my son’s age. He didn’t like the idea of only two players playing at a time and demanded me to buy a chess board on which more boys can play. When I told him no such chess board is available, he wanted to develop such a chess board.”
Taking inspiration from Stephen Hawking, Bhati worked tirelessly on the six-player chess board. His parents, both teachers in schools, helped him whenever necessary. Today, Bhati has left his body, but he became a role-model for millions of children across the globe presenting the fact that disability can never prevent you from reaching your dream.