Angel Chess.

Here is a custom set of rules, a fresh, different way to play chess.

1- The board starts off with only the first row of pawns (set up normally) and the king behind, on the square of each players choosing.

2- Pawns can move and capture the same way, forward or diagonally one square. (there are no 2 move hops).

3- Each turn, the player can either:
- Place a piece from their set (all the minor + major pieces) anywhere on the board. Whether they are allowed to check or not is player preference.
- Move a piece already on the board. 

I propose that there is no castling, or stalemate rule (capture the king first wins). 

All other moves + rules are the same.

-- I would love to see the potentials of this game style. Pawns would be more powerful. 
There would be more strategic possibilities, such as-
 - Holding pieces in hand for surprise vs. having all your forces out.
 - Creating pawn deathballs.
 - Dreaming up different strategies, and countering each others ideas.
 
Also no locked pawn formations. You could move your pawns diagonally to open up files, double and undouble, etc.

The rules are a lot simpler to teach to a newbie than normal chess. They are more logical. Pawns are like swordsmen, moving and attacking frontally. Whoevers king dies first loses. The hardest part would be teaching the knight :P

I would love for there to be an online chess board with no rules coded in, so we could play a variant like this, and others.