[dgordon]

I can't believe you've played much chess if you think that it's purely about deductive reasoning. Humans can't calculate even the least part of all the possibilities in most positions. Knowing where to look -- which is just one role intuition plays -- is indispensable for a chess player.

[sayemm]

You're right and I'm not an experienced chess player, thanks for the pointer. What I was getting at though was how it's not a game of incomplete info, as say in poker/bridge where intuition plays a far bigger role.