New Chess Game - need a name

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Avatar of Czech_M8

While sitting here last night at the computer waiting for someone to make a move, an idea for a new chess variant suddenly occurred to me. The idea was to combine the games of chess and checkers by simply replacing the pawns on either side with checkers. All chess and checker pieces would retain their respective rules of movement, with the exception that the checkers could move, just like a chess pawn, either one or two spaces on their first move. They would move diagonally on squares of their own color, and be able to "jump" pieces successively. This gives them much greater strength. I EVEN came up with what I thought was an original name, CHESSKERS, until I googled the term and sadly found out someone had beaten me to it! The rules for that game are different, though, in that each side uses 2 rows of checkers, the pieces start on ranks 2 and 7 with the back ranks empty, and the checkers can move forwards and backwards. sooo...now I need a new game name!

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Pawn Jumpers? :)