A white piece directly attacks an undefended black piece, winning material — includes discovered attacks that expose a hanging target.
SAE concept sae_7034 fires when a white piece directly attacks an undefended black piece, winning material — includes discovered attacks that expose a hanging target.. It appears in 6 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 1041–2193 (median 2193).
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This page documents A white piece directly attacks an undefended…, 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 white piece directly attacks an undefended black piece, winning material — includes discovered attacks that expose a hanging target.
This pattern fires in 6 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 1041 to 2193, with a median rating of 2193. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_7034 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 6 |
| Min ELO | 1041 |
| Median ELO | 2193 |
| Max ELO | 2193 |
| 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 zxZYU — ELO 1041, themes: crushing, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: White
- Puzzle zxZYU_F — ELO 1041, themes: crushing, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zxZYU_M — ELO 1041, themes: crushing, endgame, hangingPiece, side to move: White
- Puzzle ztBI0 — ELO 2193, themes: advantage, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, side to move: Black
- Puzzle ztBI0_F — ELO 2193, themes: advantage, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, side to move: White
- Puzzle ztBI0_M — ELO 2193, themes: advantage, discoveredAttack, discoveredCheck, 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_7034?
A white piece directly attacks an undefended black piece, winning material — includes discovered attacks that expose a hanging target. 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 1041 to 2193 with a median of 2193.
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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