"Before the Olympics, I met with Volodya Brodsky, a doctor and a refusenik. Several years later, Volodya would be sentenced to a year in prison and become a “prisoner of Zion.” But, at the time, Brodsky was organizing a collective hunger strike, timed to coincide with the Olympics, and invited me to participate. I declined, thinking that maybe we would be released anyway. On top of that, I had already accepted my friend Mark Dvoretsky’s suggestion to go to Eshery, an Olympic facility near Sukhumi, for the duration of the Olympics.

Mark was the coach of the outstanding Georgian female chess player Nana Alexandria, who was preparing for the women’s candidates match, and I agreed to work with her on her openings. At the sports facility, I lived anonymously and did not register with any office. Alas, while Nana and I were working, Baturinsky arrived in Eshery, and so did a doctor who had accompanied our chess team to the Olympiad in Buenos Aires and who knew me. The question, of course, is not which of them informed on me, but which of them informed on me first.

Nana could not be punished for working with me; she was the pride of the Georgian people. Dvoretsky was barred from traveling abroad for one year. Who suffered most as a result? A completely unrelated person, <Nikolay Andrianov>.