Anatoli Karpov, during a game. /
Chess
The legendary former world champion, 71, suffers a serious head injury after a domestic accident, but is stable
Former Russian chess player Anatoli Karpov is in a Moscow hospital in an induced coma. The legendary former world chess champion, 71, is being treated in the neurology intensive care unit after suffering a domestic accident on Saturday that caused a serious head injury, his daughter Sofía announced on Monday. Karpov also suffers a fracture of the left femur in a fall.
Karpov’s condition is serious, but stable, according to various sources, after it was reported that the Russian teacher was intoxicated when he suffered the fall that forced his emergency admission to hospital and caused him to go into a coma. “According to my information, Karpov’s condition is stable,” said the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Arkady Dvorkovich.
The president of the All-Russian Entrepreneurs Movement, Andrei Kovalyov, reported however that Karpov was the victim of an attack in the middle of the street by an unknown person. “God grant that everything goes well. He is such a good person, that I hope that this scoundrel is found, “he said, referring to the alleged attacker of the former chess player.
The daughter of the Russian teacher denied that Karpov, currently a deputy of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia, suffered an attack on Saturday at the gates of the Duma, the Russian lower house, and was found unconscious. Different media announced that the former world chess champion between 1975 and 1985, and between 1993 and 1999, had been the victim of an attack near the Duma headquarters, but this information was also later denied by United Russia.
