A recent study has found that the chess masters use their brains differently when compared with the amateur players.The study was conducted in Japan on the professional and amatuer players of Shogi-a japanese game much similar to chess.The study found that the players used two regions of the brain-back and the centre of the brain.The professionals used the central part of the brain often and the amateurs used this region only one third time when compared with the professionals.The study's lead author,Tanaka,said that the extensive training by the professional players would have shifted their activity from cerebral cortex to the caudate nucleus(central brain),which is responsible for switching bodily movements.
