Detects a king under attack where the defending side has fewer or equal defenders on the king square, regardless of the king's proximity to its starting square.
SAE concept sae_30384 fires when detects a king under attack where the defending side has fewer or equal defenders on the king square, regardless of the king's proximity to its starting square.. It appears in 27 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.3%), spanning ELO 698–2551 (median 1386).
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This page documents Detects a king under attack where the defending…, 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 king under attack where the defending side has fewer or equal defenders on the king square, regardless of the king's proximity to its starting square.
This pattern fires in 27 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 698 to 2551, with a median rating of 1386. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_30384 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 27 |
| Min ELO | 698 |
| Median ELO | 1386 |
| Max ELO | 2551 |
| Coverage | 0.27% 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 xVnVr — ELO 698, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xVnVr_M — ELO 698, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01I8x_M — ELO 957, themes: crushing, endgame, queenRookEndgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zbYbq_M — ELO 1226, themes: advantage, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zwteV_F — ELO 1256, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle 00sTO_F — ELO 1386, themes: crushing, endgame, long, side to move: White
- Puzzle 011Un_F — ELO 1423, themes: crushing, endgame, short, side to move: White
- Puzzle zu7IX — ELO 1938, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, middlegame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle wUL1J — ELO 2549, themes: arabianMate, defensiveMove, master, side to move: White
- Puzzle zsKKi — ELO 2551, themes: advantage, defensiveMove, exposedKing, 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_30384?
Detects a king under attack where the defending side has fewer or equal defenders on the king square, regardless of the king's proximity to its starting square. 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 27 tagged puzzles (0.3% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 698 to 2551 with a median of 1386.
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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