You can significantly reduce draws in normal Chess by simplifying the rules and getting rid of ‘check’. Just swap to the clean win condition of ‘capture the opposing King’. In particular, this means all KIng+Pawn vs King endgames are won unless the friendly pawn and king are too far away. If KPvsK is winning a large number of other endgames are winning as well since they can be converted to KPvsK. It has other implications. For example, all normal Queen vs Pawn endgames are won unless the pawn immediately promotes.
You can significantly reduce draws in normal Chess by simplifying the rules and getting rid of ‘check’. Just swap to the clean win condition of ‘capture the opposing King’. In particular, this means all KIng+Pawn vs King endgames are won unless the friendly pawn and king are too far away. If KPvsK is winning a large number of other endgames are winning as well since they can be converted to KPvsK. It has other implications. For example, all normal Queen vs Pawn endgames are won unless the pawn immediately promotes.
Aside from changing stalemates, I don’t see how this changes anything. Checkmate is isomorphic to capturing the king, as long as no blunders are made