Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.
Magnus Carlsen
How is this intuition guided by factors external to the chess position itself?
White to move
When I did encounter this position in tactics training on Chess.com, my first thought was to threaten checkmate with 1.Kc4. My intuition was influenced by the knowledge that there was a tactical opportunity. I quickly deduced that some sort of rook sacrifice to deflect Black's rook from the h-file was the intent of the exercise. After examining a line or two that begins with the mate threat, I spent a minute (or less) on Ke4, too.
Try it yourself at Puzzle 42645.
