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, int

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.