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Secrets of Chess Intuition

This document is a chapter from a book on chess intuition. It discusses intuitive decisions in chess positions, such as exchange sacrifices, piece sacrifices, pawn sacrifices, and improving the worst placed piece. It also covers analysis versus intuition, psychological factors, and intuition in the opening and endgame. The chapter includes two annotated chess positions as examples.

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Secrets of Chess Intuition

This document is a chapter from a book on chess intuition. It discusses intuitive decisions in chess positions, such as exchange sacrifices, piece sacrifices, pawn sacrifices, and improving the worst placed piece. It also covers analysis versus intuition, psychological factors, and intuition in the opening and endgame. The chapter includes two annotated chess positions as examples.

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Contents

Symbols 4
Foreword 5
Introduction 6

1 The Intuition of Mikhail Tal 10


2 Simple Intuitive Decisions 22
3 Combinative Intuitive Decisions 29
4 Intuitive Positional Decisions: Introduction 47
5 Exchange Sacrifices 49
6 Piece Sacrifices for Two Pawns 66
7 Queen Sacrifices 70
8 Pawn Sacrifices 74
9 Exchanging as an Intuitive Decision 86
10 Which Rook? 94
11 Mysterious Quiet Moves 100
12 Improving the Worst-Placed Piece 103
13 Analysis, Intuition and Mistakes in Judgement 108
14 Intuition and Risk 119
15 Intuition in the Endgame 124
16 Psychological Factors 134
17 Intuition in the Opening 149
18 Suetin on Intuition 155
19 Test Your Intuition 167
Solutions 171

Index of Players 174


Index of Openings 176
46 SECRETS OF CHESS INTUITION

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W W
-+-+-+p+ -+-Zp+-+
+-+Lzp+- +p+l+n+-
-+Pz-+-+ -Z-S-V-+
W-+P+-Z- +Q+-+-+-
-+-SPZ-Z P+-+-ZPZ
TR+-S-M- +-+RT-M-
Larsen – Chandler Sakaev – Rublevsky
Hastings 1987/8 Russian Ch (St Petersburg) 1998

1 Ëxa8! Ìxa8 2 Îxa8 Íh6 has no problems. Changing the mate-


In order to generate some sort of rial balance of the position leads to an
counterplay. alteration in the style of play, but not,
3 Ìdf3 Ëe7 4 Íxb7 Íd7 apparently, to the evaluation of the po-
After the exchange of bishops, sition.
White has the simple plan of advanc- 1...exd5 2 Ìxf5 Îe8?!
ing the c4-pawn. Straightaway an inaccuracy. Black
5 Îxe8+ Íxe8 6 Íd5! should prefer 2...Ëd7! 3 Îxd5 f6 4
Controlling the maximum amount h3 (4 Îe7 is bad owing to 4...Îfe8!)
of squares. 4...Îfe8 5 Ìe7+! Êf7 6 Îc5! and
6...Ëd6 7 Îb7 even though Îc7 is not threatened im-
The prophylactic 7 h4 also deserves mediately, Black’s position is not easy
attention. to play.
7...g5 8 h4! gxh4 9 Ìxh4 Íd7 10 3 Ìe7+ Êf8?
Ìef3 f4 11 Íe4 fxg3 12 fxg3 Íe3+ Better is 3...Êh8 4 Îxd5 Ëd7 al-
13 Êg2 Íg4 14 Îxh7+ Êg8 15 Îb7 though after 5 h3 and 6 Îc5 Black’s
Black can safely resign – the threat position is unenviable.
of Ìg6 followed by Íd5+ wins. 4 Îxd5 Ëd7 5 h3 a6 6 Îh5!
This is White’s idea.
In the following position, White de- 6...f6
cided to invest some material in order Not 6...h6? because of 7 Îxh6!!
to activate his pieces. gxh6 8 Íxh6#.
1 Ëxd5! 7 Îxh7 Îad8 8 Îe3 Îc8 9 Ìxc8
Sakaev thought that 1 Ëb2 was Êg8 10 Ìb6 Ëd8 11 Îxe8+ Ëxe8 12
harmless since after 1...Ìxd6 2 Íxd6 d7 Ëd8 13 Îh5 g5 14 Íe3 Êg7 15
Ëxd6 3 Ìxb5 Ëc6 4 Ìd4 Ëb7 Black h4! Êg6 16 Îxg5+! 1-0

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