Intuition in chess

Hello,

I wanted to know of the importance of intuition in chess. I find that I do better with standard chess when I go with the flow of the game assuming no traps are fallen into as opposed to thinking critically every single step of the way. I tend to overthink things. Will this wear off as I get better?

This question is indeed very general, might even be useless, but, all replies are appreciated :)

Thanks,

chessman

You can't have any intuition until you have a lot of patterns memorised so that your brain says ' I've seen this before and the right plan is...' The reason GM's play blitz at a higher level than an amateur with unlimited time is the thousands of hours of study that enables their subconscious to find good moves in a fraction of a second. The key is to play a good move, you can find the 'best' move after the game. Don't believe that old adage about 'when you see a good move look  for a better one' as Bill Hartston wrote 'When you see a good move PLAY IT!, good moves are few and far between'...