Valdis Valters – about fixed matches in the USSR: "In Tbilisi to me suggested "to hand over" game"

The world champion and Europe as a part of USSR national team Valdis Valters told how at the time of Soviet Union affairs with fixed matches were. "I will tell story. Somehow we come to Tbilisi to play round. And on the eve of a match with owners the person comes to my hotel room. "Here to you money, give game". Well here that they, were stunned? Where morals, where principles? I will be at all, at the same Gomel, to sell game? That it had an occasion to expel me from the national team? And the main thing that then all learned, what Valdis Valters it is possible to buy for money? The person left, but at parting told: "All of you is equal...