A contested central or passed pawn under tactical tension, often serving as a pivot for a combination.
SAE concept sae_11563 fires when a contested central or passed pawn under tactical tension, often serving as a pivot for a combination.. It appears in 11 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 1011–2415 (median 1816).
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This page documents A contested central or passed pawn under…, one of 4,505 interpretable chess concepts extracted from Leela Chess Zero via sparse autoencoders. The full feature description from our SAE labelling pipeline reads:
A contested central or passed pawn under tactical tension, often serving as a pivot for a combination.
This pattern fires in 11 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 1011 to 2415, with a median rating of 1816. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_11563 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 11 |
| Min ELO | 1011 |
| Median ELO | 1816 |
| Max ELO | 2415 |
| Coverage | 0.11% of puzzle set |
Related concepts
The five concepts most often co-firing alongside this one (Jaccard similarity over the puzzle co-occurrence graph) are:
Example puzzles
Below are 10 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle ziUln_M — ELO 1011, themes: hookMate, mate, mateIn2, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01sLK — ELO 1813, themes: advantage, endgame, short, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01sLK_F — ELO 1813, themes: advantage, endgame, short, side to move: White
- Puzzle 01sLK_M — ELO 1813, themes: advantage, endgame, short, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zz7DH — ELO 1816, themes: crushing, master, middlegame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zz7DH_F — ELO 1816, themes: crushing, master, middlegame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zz7DH_M — ELO 1816, themes: crushing, master, middlegame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zgvz4_M — ELO 1835, themes: backRankMate, endgame, mate, side to move: White
- Puzzle yQHTd — ELO 2415, themes: crushing, kingsideAttack, middlegame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle yQHTd_F — ELO 2415, themes: crushing, kingsideAttack, middlegame, side to move: White
How to use this page
If you want to train this pattern, open the Climbchess trainer and filter for puzzles tagged with this concept. The trainer surfaces them at the right difficulty for your current rating, and tracks how often you spot the cue versus miss it. You can also browse the related concepts above to see neighbouring ideas in feature space.
Climbchess concepts are not heuristics written by a human author. Each one corresponds to a single direction in the residual stream of Leela Chess Zero that activates on a specific board feature, then was labelled by reading the top-activating positions. This makes the catalogue exhaustive (every Leela-detectable pattern is in here somewhere) and falsifiable (you can replay our extraction).
Frequently asked
What is SAE concept sae_11563?
A contested central or passed pawn under tactical tension, often serving as a pivot for a combination. It is one of 4,505 interpretable features extracted from Leela Chess Zero's residual stream via sparse autoencoders, then labelled by reading the top-activating positions.
Where does this pattern appear?
In 11 tagged puzzles (0.1% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 1011 to 2415 with a median of 1816.
How do I train it?
Open the Climbchess trainer and filter for puzzles tagged with this concept. The trainer adapts difficulty using your live recognition profile and tracks how often you spot the cue versus miss it.
Is it free?
Yes. Climbchess is free forever, with no account, email, or signup required. You can delete your data at any time.