The Expert Mind

August 5, 2006 at 23:30 (Chess)

Good article in ‘Scientific American’ on how 

Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945&chanID=sa006

… chess has served as the greatest single test bed for theories of thinking–the “Drosophila of cognitive science,” as it has been called.

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