Not too long ago i came up with (as far as I know) a new chess variant. If anyone could comment upon it (why it doesn't work, improvements, problems, etc) it would be appreciated.

It has the same set-up and rules as regular chess, except each player has a row of 8 checkers in front of his or her pawns. The checkers move and capture like ordinary checkers except there are no forced captures (including jumps) and there are no double jumps (well, there could be but it would be very difficult to find check if a triple jump captured the king ;-) )

The only possible problem i found was it can get kind of crowded, but i don't think that has to be a bad thing.