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West Michigan Chess > Authors > Eugene Brumley > Posts > Intuition
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6/4/2009
"Intuition is the most important thing." - Vassily Smyslov
In my most recent game with Ian Edgerle, I found myself "feeling" positions I didn't understand. At a few key moments I had to think about where the position was heading, and at those moments I had a sense about the move-ideas I was considering. At my 24th move, my sense was the strongest, yelling at me to go one direction, balking at the move I chose, but for some reason (materialism?) I insisted on using logic and calculation to (dis)prove my intuition. And, since I was looking so hard, I was able to disprove it. Half a game earlier, at move 16, my intuitive senses tingled to warn me against preventing Black's "counterplay" in the manner I was then pondering. This time I ignored my intuition out of laziness. Had I looked deeper into the position, I would have seen my opponent's Queenside break was actually good for me. Instead, my position lost flexibility and finding a win was made difficult.
The puzzle below is more positional in nature than tactical. The solution can be found in the annotations to move 24 here.
White to Move
Position after 23...Nd7-b6
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