No, saidh is saying that intuition is the perfect word for it but that the posters are using the term incorrectly.
Your intuition doesn't "grow" as some people are saying, your ability does. Your intuition is simply a sense of knowing where to look, impending danger, possible opportunity etc. with no rational base (For the media crowd: Spidey Sense). What they're talking about is ingraining patterns into your mind and then having a vague sense of them in novel situations. This is wholly rational: it is conditioning, practice, second nature, etc. Intuition is not secondary, it is primary.
Ah my friend, but there seems to be a bit of a hole in that logic. I do believe that intuition can be developed...you played a semantics game and said "refined."
Intuition is unexplainable... I agree, but everything comes from something, even if it you can't explain where it comes from. I think you mentioned earlier that capablanca was intuition... but he had to learn how the pieces move first and play games!
Refined is not growing chum. Does a diamond get larger when you put it through the refinement process? If anything, refinement means making smaller, or more acute. In either case it is not growing.
Listen, you're confusing yourself. He had to learn how the pieces move, but that has little to do with his intuition. You cannot intuitively know waht life is after death because you are not in that realm yet. You may be a spectacular dead person, but how would you know until you are exposed to it? You're confusing intuition as natural ability with sphere it's applied to.
Agree to disagree.
(The question about women and their "paternal instinct", was ridiculous)
One problem with talking about intuition regarding the tactics trainer is that it's already a given that there's some combo there (your intuition is being done for you, so to speak). The only genuine test of it is during actual play.
Agree completely. This is the value of playing positions that do not have any clue besides "White/Black to move". Still not totally realistic (if you were playing the game you would at least have some plan that led you to the position), but the best thing to do when dropping someone in "cold" is to tell them which side is to move and leave it at that.
Alburt's "Chess Training Pocket Book" is good for practicing calculative ability precisely because of this same factor. There are no clues to the positions; you are simply given the side to move. Sometimes you are playing for a win, sometimes for a draw, sometimes for a positional advantage, and sometimes you are playing a lost position and just trying to find the best move to prolong the game... You do not know until you evaluate the position - almost like a real chess game.
Once you know there is "something" in a position, you are much more willing to search for it. And the timed aspect of Tactics Trainer does not help at all because if you see a timer counting down, you will likely be inclined to try and calculate one variation over and over again, looking for an advantage whether or not it might be there. Or worse - you may be inclined to just play a move because it "looks right" without calculating the consequences. Those players who occasionally do this in OTB play do not make said move in under 5 seconds, I guarantee. They may take 10, 20, or even 30+ minutes to look at a number of variations before deciding to play a move based on "gut instinct."
More than intuition, I might be inclined to say that creativity is the biggest key to finding the "right" move.