Secrets of Chess Intuition

by Beliavsky, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781901983524
• ISBN10: 1901983528
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Gambit

Summary

Intuition is central to all chess decision-making, and an understanding of its role is vital to improving one's game. Players who try to calculate everything to a finish are doomed to lose out to those who use their logical and intuitive abilities in harmony with one another. This book, the first devoted to the role of intuition in chess, explains how to allow your intuition to reach its full potential and provides guidance on the types of positions in which one should rely heavily on intuition, and on those where one ought to be more analytical.

Table of Contents

Symbols	4	(1)
Foreword	5	(1)
Introduction	6	(4)
The Intuition of Mikhail Tal	10	(12)
Simple Intuitive Decisions	22	(7)
Combinative Intuitive Decisions	29	(18)
Intuitive Positional Decisions: Introduction	47	(2)
Exchange Sacrifices	49	(17)
Piece Sacrifices for Two Pawns	66	(4)
Queen Sacrifices	70	(4)
Pawn Sacrifices	74	(12)
Exchanging as an Intuitive Decision	86	(8)
Which Rook?	94	(6)
Mysterious Quiet Moves	100	(3)
Improving the Worst-Placed Piece	103	(5)
Analysis, Intuition and Mistakes in Judgement	108	(11)
Intuition and Risk	119	(5)
Intuition in the Endgame	124	(10)
Psychological Factors	134	(15)
Intuition in the Opening	149	(6)
Suetin on intuition	155	(12)
Test Your Intuition	167	(4)
Solutions	171	(3)
Index of Players	174	(2)
Index of Openings	176