Detects a pawn on the 3rd or 4th rank in a king-and-pawn endgame that is under pressure or structurally weak relative to the enemy king's position.
SAE concept sae_9585 fires when detects a pawn on the 3rd or 4th rank in a king-and-pawn endgame that is under pressure or structurally weak relative to the enemy king's position.. It appears in 5 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.1%), spanning ELO 751–2348 (median 1323).
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This page documents Detects a pawn on the 3rd or 4th rank in a…, 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 on the 3rd or 4th rank in a king-and-pawn endgame that is under pressure or structurally weak relative to the enemy king's position.
This pattern fires in 5 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 751 to 2348, with a median rating of 1323. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_9585 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 5 |
| Min ELO | 751 |
| Median ELO | 1323 |
| Max ELO | 2348 |
| Coverage | 0.05% 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 5 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle zbKzl — ELO 751, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zbKzl_F — ELO 751, themes: crushing, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zkTZL — ELO 1323, themes: crushing, endgame, pawnEndgame, side to move: White
- Puzzle zkTZL_F — ELO 1323, themes: crushing, endgame, pawnEndgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zzJ3V_M — ELO 2348, themes: crushing, endgame, pawnEndgame, 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_9585?
Detects a pawn on the 3rd or 4th rank in a king-and-pawn endgame that is under pressure or structurally weak relative to the enemy king's position. 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 5 tagged puzzles (0.1% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 751 to 2348 with a median of 1323.
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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