Anatoly Karpov said he did not know what really happened to him, and expressed the hope that he would not end up in the hospital again in the near future
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The twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov declared “RIA Novosti”that he has yet to figure out how he ended up in the hospital at the end of October.
“I feel fine, I’m resting. Every day the condition improves. I don’t know what happened to me, I’ll have to figure it out. I think someone met me from bad people. I do not know where and how it happened, but we will understand. I hope that in the near future there will be no new hospitalization, ”said Karpov.
On the discharge of 71-year-old Karpov from the hospital became known 15th of November.
31 October PR Director of the Russian Chess Federation Kirill Zangalis declaredthat Karpov was hospitalized with a domestic injury.
Sources of RBC in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow and in the territorial police department reported that Karpov was transferred from the first hospital to the Research Institute. Sklifosovsky, where they diagnosed a closed head injury and a fracture of the femoral neck. Also reportedthat the grandmaster has pneumonia.
Daughter of a chess player Sophia refuted information that Karpov was attacked.