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Last week, news of Anatoly Karpov's admission to a Moscow hospital reached the chess world. Many chess fans were worried about the 12th World Chess Champion, not least because the news from the various Russian media and news channels about the cause of the admission and the extent of the reported injuries were quite contradictory.
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Karpov had been found unconscious and with head injuries near the Duma and initial reports said he had been the victim of an attack. The 71-year-old was in intensive care at a Moscow hospital with severe head injuries and a fractured hip, according to other sources he had a fractured neck of the femur, and had been placed in an induced coma.
The English Daily Mail even saw Karpov among the mysterious deaths of prominent Russian oligarchs, managers and other representatives of the Russian elite and referred to an interview the former World Champion had given a TV channel in Kazakhstan:
"I wish [the war] would end sooner, so that peaceful people would stop dying," the Daily Mail quotes Karpov. "In the end ordinary people are the victims. Ordinary people fight, politicians and generals decide, and ordinary people fight, civilians die. I am not even talking about soldiers and officers. No, I could not imagine at all that Russians and Ukrainians would go to war. I have many friends in Ukraine."
However, the interview took place some time ago.
Karpov's daughter Sofia and his wife Natalia, however, soon contradicted the report of an attack on Karpov. They said the former World Champion and current Duma deputy had fallen in snow or ice and suffered a traumatic brain injury and, in fact, a fracture of the femoral neck bone. However, he was also still struggling with pneumonia and was on a ventilator.
According to the latest reports from the family, Karpov is now on the road to recovery and is to be transferred from the intensive care unit to the normal ward. Karpov was already taken off the ventilator last Wednesday, but is still weakened and can only speak softly. Karpov usually writes his wishes and instructions on slips of paper. Karpov's wife Natalia brought Karpov an iPad. He also asked for a book.
Karpov's complaint about the quality of the food in the hospital can be interpreted as a good sign of an improving condition. According to Karpov, the food was tasteless. Karpov's wife Natalia said that she would bring her husband chicken broth from home.
