Natan Sharansky and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against adults. At the age of 15, he won the championship in his native Donetsk. When incarcerated in solitary confinement, he claims to have maintained his sanity by playing chess against himself in his mind. Sharansky beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition in Israel in 1996. He took his current Hebrew name in 1986, when he was freed from Soviet incarceration as part of a prisoner exchange and received an Israeli passport with his new name. Natan
Natan Sharansky dissident movement, and in 2008 he was featured in Laura Bialis' documentary "Refusenik". In 2014, he took part in Natella Boltyanskaya's documentary "Parallels, Events, People". He was number eleven on the list of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005 in the "Scientists and thinkers" category. Sharansky is the author of three books. The first is the autobiographical "Fear No Evil", which dealt with his trial and imprisonment. His second book, "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror" was co-written with Ron Dermer. George W. Bush offered praise for the book: If you