The feature detects a king on the back rank (or a square adjacent to it) that is vulnerable to a back-rank mate or a similar attack, often involving a queen or rook.
SAE concept sae_37346 fires when the feature detects a king on the back rank (or a square adjacent to it) that is vulnerable to a back-rank mate or a similar attack, often involving a queen or rook.. It appears in 20 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.2%), spanning ELO 613–1192 (median 718).
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This page documents The feature detects a king on the back rank (or…, 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:
The feature detects a king on the back rank (or a square adjacent to it) that is vulnerable to a back-rank mate or a similar attack, often involving a queen or rook.
This pattern fires in 20 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 613 to 1192, with a median rating of 718. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_37346 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 20 |
| Min ELO | 613 |
| Median ELO | 718 |
| Max ELO | 1192 |
| Coverage | 0.20% 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 xbPL4 — ELO 613, themes: anastasiaMate, endgame, mate, side to move: White
- Puzzle 01uXH — ELO 654, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle 00eAX — ELO 703, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 00eAX_M — ELO 703, themes: endgame, mate, mateIn2, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zc3vY_F — ELO 708, themes: endgame, hangingPiece, mate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xBD22 — ELO 718, themes: arabianMate, endgame, mate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xBD22_M — ELO 718, themes: arabianMate, endgame, mate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle wYu8Q_F — ELO 919, themes: anastasiaMate, endgame, mate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle 01zHy_F — ELO 925, themes: endgame, epauletteMate, master, side to move: White
- Puzzle zbZbn_F — ELO 1127, themes: crushing, endgame, 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_37346?
The feature detects a king on the back rank (or a square adjacent to it) that is vulnerable to a back-rank mate or a similar attack, often involving a queen or rook. 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 20 tagged puzzles (0.2% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 613 to 1192 with a median of 718.
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?
Yes. Climbchess is free forever, with no account, email, or signup required. You can delete your data at any time.