By chance I watched part of this TV program: scientists examined the MRI brain images of two women. One was a woman chess grand master and the other is a color blind woman.
Interestingly, both women made use of the same parts of the brain for different purposes: for the chess prodigy - pattern recognition to decide how to make the next move and for the color blind woman - to recognize faces of people without the help of hair and eye color.
This chess prodigy was trained by her father since she was very young. By the time she was six years old, she spent up to six hours a day memorizing chess moves. Apart from the unique ability to be able to focus at such a young age, she was disciplined and happened to have a father willing to spend years training her and her two sisters. All three women excelled at chess as adults.
Elizabeth and I laugh at ourselves, we are both not very good at facial recognition. No wonder we are neither any good in chess.
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