(Chess noob here) Always found the "protect the king" rules in regular chess interesting but also somewhat strange. (The rules that make it impossible to actua

(Chess noob here) Always found the "protect the king" rules in regular chess interesting but also somewhat strange. (The rules that make it impossible to actually take a king and instead let the game reason on the "possibility" that a king could be taken in the next turn - i.e. check and checkmate) As long as only check and checkmate are considered, the rules are a bit weird, but should not change the game dynamics, as they only enforce the moves that any rational player would do anyway. But adding stalemates to it seems to actually change the gameplay, and this 1D variant makes it even more obvious. If you compared this chess variant with a 1D chess where the king would behave like a normal piece (except taking it would end the game) and any draw would have to be called manually, the game would behave completely different.