A square where white holds a local attacking advantage — fork target, hanging piece, or key mating square — with minimal black resistance.
SAE concept sae_28453 fires when a square where white holds a local attacking advantage — fork target, hanging piece, or key mating square — with minimal black resistance.. It appears in 9 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 826–2316 (median 1970).
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This page documents A square where white holds a local attacking…, 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 square where white holds a local attacking advantage — fork target, hanging piece, or key mating square — with minimal black resistance.
This pattern fires in 9 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 826 to 2316, with a median rating of 1970. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_28453 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 9 |
| Min ELO | 826 |
| Median ELO | 1970 |
| Max ELO | 2316 |
| Coverage | 0.09% 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 9 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle zwocD — ELO 826, themes: advantage, endgame, fork, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zwocD_F — ELO 826, themes: advantage, endgame, fork, side to move: White
- Puzzle zwocD_M — ELO 826, themes: advantage, endgame, fork, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zxbw6_M — ELO 1182, themes: advancedPawn, clearance, crushing, side to move: White
- Puzzle zwwhE — ELO 1970, themes: crushing, endgame, fork, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zwwhE_F — ELO 1970, themes: crushing, endgame, fork, side to move: White
- Puzzle zwwhE_M — ELO 1970, themes: crushing, endgame, fork, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zzNOQ_M — ELO 2025, themes: advantage, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: White
- Puzzle Qkq9v_M — ELO 2316, themes: anastasiaMate, attraction, kingsideAttack, 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_28453?
A square where white holds a local attacking advantage — fork target, hanging piece, or key mating square — with minimal black resistance. 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 9 tagged puzzles (0.1% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 826 to 2316 with a median of 1970.
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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