Detects a tactical situation involving a pinned or contested piece near the centre, often tied to a promotion or advanced-pawn motif.
SAE concept sae_17371 fires when detects a tactical situation involving a pinned or contested piece near the centre, often tied to a promotion or advanced-pawn motif.. It appears in 7 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 749–2205 (median 1017).
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This page documents Detects a tactical situation involving a pinned…, 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:
Detects a tactical situation involving a pinned or contested piece near the centre, often tied to a promotion or advanced-pawn motif.
This pattern fires in 7 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 749 to 2205, with a median rating of 1017. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_17371 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 7 |
| Min ELO | 749 |
| Median ELO | 1017 |
| Max ELO | 2205 |
| Coverage | 0.07% 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 7 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle vv6vE — ELO 749, themes: advancedPawn, attraction, crushing, side to move: Black
- Puzzle vv6vE_F — ELO 749, themes: advancedPawn, attraction, crushing, side to move: White
- Puzzle vv6vE_M — ELO 749, themes: advancedPawn, attraction, crushing, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zz3pN_M — ELO 1017, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle zuUUy — ELO 2205, themes: advantage, middlegame, pin, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zuUUy_F — ELO 2205, themes: advantage, middlegame, pin, side to move: White
- Puzzle zuUUy_M — ELO 2205, themes: advantage, middlegame, pin, side to move: Black
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_17371?
Detects a tactical situation involving a pinned or contested piece near the centre, often tied to a promotion or advanced-pawn motif. 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 7 tagged puzzles (0.1% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 749 to 2205 with a median of 1017.
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.