A white rook on an open file or rank, participating in a discovered attack or mating sequence, often as the primary attacker.
SAE concept sae_18417 fires when a white rook on an open file or rank, participating in a discovered attack or mating sequence, often as the primary attacker.. It appears in 6 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 1047–1936 (median 1639).
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This page documents A white rook on an open file or rank…, 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 white rook on an open file or rank, participating in a discovered attack or mating sequence, often as the primary attacker.
This pattern fires in 6 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 1047 to 1936, with a median rating of 1639. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_18417 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 6 |
| Min ELO | 1047 |
| Median ELO | 1639 |
| Max ELO | 1936 |
| Coverage | 0.06% 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 6 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle zyn41_M — ELO 1047, themes: endgame, master, mate, side to move: White
- Puzzle 022Uz — ELO 1639, themes: crushing, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, side to move: White
- Puzzle 022Uz_F — ELO 1639, themes: crushing, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 022Uz_M — ELO 1639, themes: crushing, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, side to move: White
- Puzzle 3iMYv — ELO 1936, themes: discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, doubleBishopMate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 3iMYv_F — ELO 1936, themes: discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, doubleBishopMate, 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_18417?
A white rook on an open file or rank, participating in a discovered attack or mating sequence, often as the primary attacker. 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 6 tagged puzzles (0.1% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 1047 to 1936 with a median of 1639.
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?
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