This is the actual answer and one that pretty much all strong players will agree on.
This "feel right" ability goes by different names unconscious mastery, intuition, GM-RAM, drunken chess, Blink, pattern recognition and so on.
How to develop it is another question.
Sadly I fear it is almost impossible to develop it past teenage years.
There is something magical that happens around age 13-15(Fischer said he just got good when he made this "jump", of course he was around 2300 before that). Suddenly everything just clicks.
I was a lowly A level player when it just clicked around the age of 15 and I was a master. Sadly/luckily I did not progress past FM. The "click" is a required but not sufficient condition for GM at an OTB play.
Sure for some it happens at a bit later stage for some at a bit younger stage. You have to do some work before that and to become a super GM you have to do work afterwards. (as Anand famously said you read a bunch of Informators afterwards)
As Tal said to young Kasparov - Garry you have to sac first and calculate afterwards.
This "feel right" ability goes by different names unconscious mastery, intuition, GM-RAM, drunken chess, Blink, pattern recognition and so on.
How to develop it is another question.
Sadly I fear it is almost impossible to develop it past teenage years.
There is something magical that happens around age 13-15(Fischer said he just got good when he made this "jump", of course he was around 2300 before that). Suddenly everything just clicks.
I was a lowly A level player when it just clicked around the age of 15 and I was a master. Sadly/luckily I did not progress past FM. The "click" is a required but not sufficient condition for GM at an OTB play.
Sure for some it happens at a bit later stage for some at a bit younger stage. You have to do some work before that and to become a super GM you have to do work afterwards. (as Anand famously said you read a bunch of Informators afterwards)
As Tal said to young Kasparov - Garry you have to sac first and calculate afterwards.