The Expert Mind
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.