As anyone who will read this can see, this would be a variant to address the shortcoming of chess variants on this site that there is none that is not competing with lichess and pychess for players. The idea is using concepts from standard chess and standard draughts (checkers) in the same game. There are already chess variants which do this, but they are all limited by trying to comply too literally with both games. The most, if not only genuinely, severe part of this fault is that all of these “classical” Cheskers variants with jumping capture maintain the multiple jumps of draughts (checkers), which are not strictly necessary for a chess variant to be tactically, and thus strategically, interesting. Other parts of this fault are rather less severe because most of them only apply to specific variants:
- Doing this seems to mostly be a thing where the standard draughts (checkers) game, if any, is a diagonal, and even 8x8, game, thus almost all are limited to a single color of squares on a board of less than 128 squares
- Nevertheless, Philosophy Shogi checkers (Inoue Enryō); Damate, Grand Kinger, The Good-For-Nothings and Dragon (V. R. Parton); Cuarenta (J. Mark Thompson) and Courtyard (Leonard J. Kalich Sr.) don’t suffer from their designers attempting to squeeze them onto just an 8x8 board, of which only Damate (V. R. Parton) also doesn’t suffer from him attempting to squeeze it onto just one color
- The Russian Cheskers variants Byelorussian Cheskers (N. N. Grushevsky and P. A. Shkludov) and Shashmaty (Alexander and Dimitri Moscovitch) and Jesskers (Jesse del Quadro) combine the standard chess and standard draughts (checkers) setups, and Byelorussian Cheskers (N. N. Grushevsky and P. A. Shkludov) is the least dependent on the existence of the promotion rule for making pieces which can move, and even capture, backwards outside of Damate (V. R. Parton) at 8 of 24 pieces per side
These variants also comply with draughts (checkers) compulsory capture, but this is neither a fault nor necessary.
The adaptation will thus be by adding rows of checker kings behind the back rank of the standard chess setup. Fortuitously, the checker kings may still be allowed to promote by gaining the chess king’s move. One might imagine Fr. Don Pietro Carrera, had he invented such a game, calling this “Damare”, or crowned checker king “Maria”, after the Virgin Mary, who is called the “Queen of Heaven”.

Is it available anywhere? Hard to visualize the concept through text

Not yet, that’s why I am suggesting it for here at playstrategy. Here, all the available draughts (checkers) variants include diagonal moves, which makes the draughts (checkers) kings good pieces for chess openings. Of course, playing with the short American-English king would be something of a meme as it becomes a complicated pawn without the multiple jumps of draughts (checkers) and developing the weak single corner (checkers) kings also becomes slow and excessively complicates playing normal chess.

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