A queen is attacked by exactly one piece of the opposite color, and no pieces of its own color.
SAE concept sae_23401 fires when a queen is attacked by exactly one piece of the opposite color, and no pieces of its own color.. It appears in 6 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 878–2030 (median 2030).
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This page documents A queen is attacked by exactly one piece of the…, 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 queen is attacked by exactly one piece of the opposite color, and no pieces of its own color.
This pattern fires in 6 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 878 to 2030, with a median rating of 2030. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_23401 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 6 |
| Min ELO | 878 |
| Median ELO | 2030 |
| Max ELO | 2030 |
| 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 zdAkQ — ELO 878, themes: advancedPawn, crushing, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zdAkQ_F — ELO 878, themes: advancedPawn, crushing, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zdAkQ_M — ELO 878, themes: advancedPawn, crushing, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zitA3 — ELO 2030, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zitA3_F — ELO 2030, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zitA3_M — ELO 2030, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, 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_23401?
A queen is attacked by exactly one piece of the opposite color, and no pieces of its own color. 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 878 to 2030 with a median of 2030.
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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