A couple days ago, I submitted this article to HN http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19940-chess-grandmasters-use-twice-the-brain.html http://www.newscientis

A couple days ago, I submitted this article to HN http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19940-chess-grandmasters-use-twice-the-brain.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19940-chess-grandmaste... . Basically, it says grandmasters use both hemispheres of their brain while playing chess while novice only use the left side. I agree with his point that almost anyone could learn to program, but what I don't agree with is that a programmer(expert) and a non-programmer thinks the same. I think your brain re-wires itself to be more efficient for the task and recruits the right hemisphere of your brain to make intuitive jumps to solve problems. I don't have solid proof, but I think a similar transformation happens in a programmers(expert) brain as what happens in a grandmaster brain.