How far do they see ahead ? (Problems)

by Tony Kosten , France, Thursday, December 21, 2006, 23:18 (6934 days ago) @ malcolm

? How much of this can a GM see, and how much does he
? rely on intuition that there will be something there ?

Yes, in some ways it is a tough one, but Ng6+ is certainly the move you want to play, to open the h-file, and once you see that you can then play Nd5 to both attack the black queen and threaten a sacrifice on h6, well it won't take you long to convince yourself that it is winning.
So, a GM will 'see' the combinatorial possibilities almost instantly (or maybe even several moves before), and will then analyse enough to convince himself that it is winning.