Pawn tension in the middlegame or endgame where a pawn on home-side ranks is under enemy pressure with minimal friendly support.
SAE concept sae_29887 fires when pawn tension in the middlegame or endgame where a pawn on home-side ranks is under enemy pressure with minimal friendly support.. It appears in 19 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.2%), spanning ELO 627–2086 (median 1177).
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This page documents Pawn tension in the middlegame or endgame where…, 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:
Pawn tension in the middlegame or endgame where a pawn on home-side ranks is under enemy pressure with minimal friendly support.
This pattern fires in 19 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 627 to 2086, with a median rating of 1177. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_29887 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 19 |
| Min ELO | 627 |
| Median ELO | 1177 |
| Max ELO | 2086 |
| Coverage | 0.19% 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 zznMe — ELO 627, themes: crushing, kingsideAttack, master, side to move: White
- Puzzle zznMe_F — ELO 627, themes: crushing, kingsideAttack, master, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xFkID — ELO 869, themes: anastasiaMate, endgame, long, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xFkID_M — ELO 869, themes: anastasiaMate, endgame, long, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zhzVl_F — ELO 878, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle 00Tge — ELO 1177, themes: crushing, endgame, short, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zgTAo — ELO 1196, themes: capturingDefender, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zgTAo_M — ELO 1196, themes: capturingDefender, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zzfvm — ELO 1523, themes: advantage, middlegame, veryLong, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01R41 — ELO 2086, themes: crushing, middlegame, short, 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_29887?
Pawn tension in the middlegame or endgame where a pawn on home-side ranks is under enemy pressure with minimal friendly support. 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 19 tagged puzzles (0.2% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 627 to 2086 with a median of 1177.
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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