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Ian Nepomniachtchi loses to Diptayan Ghosh in Chess World Cup, leaves in a huff after elimination | Chess News

Ian Nepomniachtchi loses to Diptayan Ghosh in Chess World Cup, leaves in a huff after elimination | Chess News

He came, he saw, he was conquered. And he left India by raising a stink. But no one knows exactly what about. Ian Nepomniachtchi’s FIDE World Cup campaign was over in two short days, after a draw in the first game and defeat in the second game of the second round of the FIDE World Cup against Indian grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh. Precisely one hour after his defeat to Ghosh, while many of the second round games were still going on in the playing hall at Resort Rio, Nepo was seen checking out and leaving the hotel, where he was staying. But not before he launched a vaguely-worded parting shot. “I’d played in India before (in 2019 in Kolkata), so I had a good idea of ​​what the conditions would be like. But FIDE, to its credit, managed to surprise me. There’s nothing to say about the chess aspect. One of those places that you won’t be sad to leave,” a disgruntled Nepomniachtchi posted on his Telegram account on Wednesday. Story continues below this ad FIDE …

This Disco Dancer can’t huff and puff

At first glance, it’s easy to see that the team behind the Disco Dancer musical has addressed several factors to help leading man Arjun Tanwar do his job of dancing and singing live on stage. “The choreography has been designed in such a way that he gets enough breathers to sing and dance correctly. I know which steps require more energy, so, we [minimise] the singing portions [around them]. Also, we avoid jerky movements while he sings,” says director-choreographer Rajiv Goswami, stating the obvious, and essential, when it comes to making a musical.  But, there’s another aspect that makes Tanwar’s job easier. As we turn up to catch the preview of Salim-Sulaiman’s musical that opens to the public on April 14, we realise that the leading man is favoured by his flair for dance. So much so that he needn’t even be attentive about his movements as he trains his attention to his rendition. “Things were not always like this, though,” he says, adding, “In the first few weeks, I would run out of breath …