Detects a pawn promotion to queen on the back rank, or a back-rank mating threat involving a rook and advanced pawn.
SAE concept sae_33944 fires when detects a pawn promotion to queen on the back rank, or a back-rank mating threat involving a rook and advanced pawn.. It appears in 6 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 685–2170 (median 1049).
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This page documents Detects a pawn promotion to queen on the back…, 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 pawn promotion to queen on the back rank, or a back-rank mating threat involving a rook and advanced pawn.
This pattern fires in 6 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 685 to 2170, with a median rating of 1049. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_33944 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 6 |
| Min ELO | 685 |
| Median ELO | 1049 |
| Max ELO | 2170 |
| 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 usVmK_M — ELO 685, themes: arabianMate, endgame, master, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01RPd — ELO 1049, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: White
- Puzzle 01RPd_F — ELO 1049, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01RPd_M — ELO 1049, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: White
- Puzzle ypn11 — ELO 2170, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: White
- Puzzle ypn11_F — ELO 2170, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, 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_33944?
Detects a pawn promotion to queen on the back rank, or a back-rank mating threat involving a rook and advanced pawn. 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 685 to 2170 with a median of 1049.
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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