Intuition in chess

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What part has intuition in chess skills if any?

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Does your intuition tells you that?

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Intuition probably isn't intuition in the strict sense of the word if you mean by it a feel for the needs of the position. It's more like subconscious calculation.
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In my case, probably more than it should. But I am too lazy to calculate...

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I cant count subconscious. I can't even do it conscious.

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That is the most important factor IMO.... That and concentration and focus..

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urk wrote:
Intuition probably isn't intuition in the strict sense of the word if you mean by it a feel for the needs of the position. It's more like subconscious calculation.

 

That is another way of looking at it that I have never heard before, and that had not occurred to me, and that might be useful.

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A "feel for position" is tremendously helpful.

Here's how it works:

Nobody chooses their move by analyzing EVERY possible continuation. We do it by selecting a limited sub-set of the available moves... perhaps three to six "candidate move" alternatives... and analyzing only them, then picking the best of that narrow range of choices.

THIS MEANS that if the best move available ISN'T one of your chosen candidate moves, then you won't even analyze it, let alone play it on the board.

... and this is where a "feel for position" or chess intuition comes into play... someone with a good feel for the position WILL include the best move in that small batch of alternatives that gets analyzed (and hopefully, played on the board).

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I'm too lazy to read books or do tactics training etc. Is just playing enough to practice intuition? 

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Interesting question. I think if one were lucky enough to discover they have an intuition early, and build on it, this intuition may help. Otherwise you'll just happen to make a great move every now and then. 

 

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For me intuition mostly comes in when my opponent plays a move that doesn't feel right given the position. 

Usually the move is a surprise. Because if I was assessing the position correctly earlier I hopefully would've noticed it if it was a good move or really noticed it if it was bad. Because the move is a surprise and doesn't feel right there are two options which I probably need to calculate:

If my intuition is correct and it doesn't fit the position, how can I get some advantage. Or, is my feeling wrong and the move is OK or even good and what did I miss  earlier and what could the potential problems be and is there a solution. So at these points a long think is usually required.

There's some videos of certain GM's where you can sometime see situations like this in their face. Nakamura sometimes but maybe more often with a GM named Nepomniachtchi.