Do you believe that practicing a lot in the programming language that you are learning is important or not?

Do you believe that if you practice a lot in the programming language that you are learning it can dramatically improve your programming skills in that language? By practicing a lot that you become very good at it like at it? Like intuitive , like when you play chess? You are making the best move because ou feel it is the best and this comes to you after a lot of chess practice.