Former International Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov was once hospitalized after he was once discovered unresponsive early within the morning close to the Russian Parliament development, in keeping with Russian telegram channels as quoted by way of worldchess.com.
Karpov suffered critical head damage and hip fracture with unconfirmed reviews additionally declaring that his blood alcohol stage was once extraordinarily prime, as quoted by way of worldchess.com.
Andrei Kovalev, chairman of the All-Russian Motion of Marketers, introduced in his Telegram channel that Karpov was once in in depth care after an assault by way of unknown folks and put into a synthetic coma, in keeping with chessbase.com, who quoted Russian outlet Tass.
Karpov’s assistant Albert Stepanyan printed to Tass that Karpov is in solid situation and suffered no accidents. He additionally refuted that Karpov was once a sufferer of attack.
In step with every other Russian outlet, Meduza, Karpov unintentionally fell down and suffered head trauma. He’s recently below statement in a health facility.
Karpov, 71, was once international champion between 1975 and 1985 and is recently a deputy of the Duma , the decrease space of the Russian Parliament.