Gabe Schoenfeld had a post up yesterday at his Commentary blog Connecting the Dots about a recent visit by Natan Sharansky to the magazine’s offices. Schoenfeld challenged the one time Soviet dissident to a game of chess. Perhaps I found this more interesting than most–when I was at school, I spent most of my time shooting pool and playing chess–but Shoenfeld was actually able to play Sharanksy to a draw. Sharansky once played Gary Kasparov to a draw, which by Shoenfeld’s logic seems to mean that he, too, might be able to play Kasparov to a draw. If I’d managed the same feat, I’m sure I’d be thinking the same way: