Former world chess champion and United Russia deputy Anatoly Karpov, who was hospitalized after falling near the State Duma, does not feel unwell and is ready to be discharged home. This was told to Izvestia by his wife Natalya Bulanova.
The wife visited Karpov in the hospital. According to her, now her husband has regained consciousness, “is eager to go home and is angry that they won’t let him go.” Doctors say that it is too early to discharge a chess player, he needs to rest. He will probably be discharged by the end of the week, his wife concluded.
Albert Stepanyan, a member of the supervisory board of the Russian Chess Federation, also reported that Karpov was conscious, he was diagnosed with a concussion, but there were no fractures. Stepanyan added that the chess player slipped and fell, there was no attack, which some media wrote about.
At the same time, on October 31, an Izvestia source reported that Karpov was connected to a ventilator, and the grandmaster was also diagnosed with cerebral edema, fractures of the right parietal and right temporal bones, multiple hematomas of the head and traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage. The State Duma claimed that Karpov was in a Moscow hospital due to a domestic injury.
71-year-old Karpov was found unconscious on October 29 on a street near the State Duma, after which he was hospitalized , Mash reported, citing his daughter Sophia. According to her daughter, the grandmaster was injured as a result of a fall, no one attacked him. The version of the attack was given by the Telegram channels Mash and Baza , and the Telegram channel " 112 ", specializing in crime chronicles, claimed that the deputy was drunk – the sources were not indicated in the publication.
Karpov held the title of world chess champion from 1975–1985. In 1985, he lost to Garry Kasparov. Karpov is also a three-time world champion according to the International Chess Federation (1993, 1996, 1998), a two-time world champion in the USSR team (1985 and 1989).
