If you make the pieces move like checkers, then it is just checkers. You can't take the chess out of chess.
New variant ideas
so how does someone checkmate, considering that checkers captures and chess captures are incompatible?
If you make the pieces move like checkers, then it is just checkers. You can't take the chess out of chess.
it moves like chess, captures like checkers
1: Chess with checkers, but swap the image of the checkers with random pieces on the board
2: Normal chess, but either adding capturing like in checkers, or replace all capturing with how it is in checkers