Fun, but provoking pieces made no sense.
Like, when you had to move a rook or bishop that was guarding the king, the method in which you had to provoke that piece made little to no sense. When they moved, it was often either directly into your line of movement or quite accessible to it with no way to defend itself -- nobody in their right mind would make a move like that. It basically came down to "dick around randomly in the vicinity of the offending piece without putting yourself in check, and eventually it will move out of the way."