no i think it's neat! its like a custom chess variant, i think it was just a bit hard to identify which custom piece mapped to what chess pieces but i think it's cool, it's difficult to be cleverer with the game design to signal that sort of stuff with such short time ya know. i really liked the game tho, and it's neat to see a fellow puzzle game maker!
and yea that makes sense, i figured out you could use the king as bait because of that lol