Tactical positions featuring knight vulnerability or knight-based mating patterns, with a knight under pressure from opposing forces.

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SAE concept sae_9098 fires when tactical positions featuring knight vulnerability or knight-based mating patterns, with a knight under pressure from opposing forces.. It appears in 235 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (2.4%), spanning ELO 626–2688 (median 1551).

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This page documents Tactical positions featuring knight…, 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:

Tactical positions featuring knight vulnerability or knight-based mating patterns, with a knight under pressure from opposing forces.

This pattern fires in 235 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 626 to 2688, with a median rating of 1551. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.

Pattern statistics

Concept IDsae_9098
Puzzles where it fires235
Min ELO626
Median ELO1551
Max ELO2688
Coverage2.36% 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.

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_9098?

Tactical positions featuring knight vulnerability or knight-based mating patterns, with a knight under pressure from opposing forces. 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 235 tagged puzzles (2.4% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 626 to 2688 with a median of 1551.

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.