Black bishop active near the opponent's back rank enabling a mating attack, typically as part of a double-bishop or back-rank mate.
SAE concept sae_948 fires when black bishop active near the opponent's back rank enabling a mating attack, typically as part of a double-bishop or back-rank mate.. It appears in 16 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.2%), spanning ELO 782–2458 (median 907).
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This page documents Black bishop active near the opponent's 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:
Black bishop active near the opponent's back rank enabling a mating attack, typically as part of a double-bishop or back-rank mate.
This pattern fires in 16 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 782 to 2458, with a median rating of 907. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_948 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 16 |
| Min ELO | 782 |
| Median ELO | 907 |
| Max ELO | 2458 |
| Coverage | 0.16% 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 zh002 — ELO 782, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle zh002_F — ELO 782, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xdqXV — ELO 877, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: Black
- Puzzle xdqXV_F — ELO 877, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle yjpKK — ELO 907, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle yjpKK_M — ELO 907, themes: doubleBishopMate, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle zxRYm — ELO 952, themes: backRankMate, endgame, long, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zvgCL_M — ELO 1067, themes: anastasiaMate, endgame, mate, side to move: White
- Puzzle zy7Cn — ELO 1071, themes: crushing, master, middlegame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zvpYM — ELO 2458, themes: crushing, endgame, quietMove, 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_948?
Black bishop active near the opponent's back rank enabling a mating attack, typically as part of a double-bishop or back-rank mate. 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 16 tagged puzzles (0.2% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 782 to 2458 with a median of 907.
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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