Science Secret of Chess Grandmasters Revealed

"For all you budding Kasparovs out there, a team of cognitive scientists has worked out how to think like a chess grand master. As those attending this week's Cognitive Science Society meeting in Chicago, Illinois, were told, the secret is to try to knock down your pet theory rather than finding ways to support it - exactly as scientists are supposed to do."

So begins a very interesting article about how Chess Grandmasters use Karl Popper's method of falsification just like scientists. Here is a link to the original academic paper by Cowley and Byrne.