How do you find the right move here

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Blundering
This is from Tal - Uhlmann 1971.  The double exclamation mark came a few moves earlier.  But, to me the White's next move I could never find over the board - how do you create the logic to find the right move?

Laskersnephew
In one sense, Tal’s Bd2 is easy to understand, but I still love it! It’s the kind of move that’s easy to understand—once it’s been played, but Tal must have seen that move quite a bit earlier. To me, Bd2 is the star move of the game
Blundering
llama45 wrote:

The game makes the logic of Bd2 pretty clear right? Re-deploying the bishop to a more effective diagonal.

If you find it super confusing and amazing that's really good. These are the games and patterns that stick in our memory and make us better players.

I agree the logic of the game that follows, it makes sense - but finding a backwards move with one of the attacking pieces is not intuitive

Xchromosome
Why wouldn’t white play Re1 x Be6 check?
The_salty_nail

because life

Laskersnephew

Rxe6 is also quite good. But it isn't nearly as memorable as that lightning bishop switch from the king side to the queen side

Laskersnephew

Absolutely correct!

DarkKnightAttack

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language -
Mikhail Tal