“You can’t ignore it and you can’t explain it”
– Agatha Christie describes intuition.
What is intuition? It is a quick and ready insight. We can’t explain it but it’s real. Mikhail Tal, the Russian world champion, was a master of intuition as he perennially expelled his opponents all the way up to the world championship title. Tal couldn’t explain what was instinct but he used it all the same.
A world chess champion is someone who searched for and found perfection, just as Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo or William Shakespeare or Beethoven did or mathematical genius. The coup de grace comes with a flash of vision. It is one of intellectual and aesthetic beauty. As such, the genius appears in any form of art. He / she takes a position that contains materials that are available to everyone and through complete imagination creates something unique and almost perfect.