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I've played this made-up variant with friends and it's pretty fun. I'd like to see it on lichess. Here are the rules:
Start off with an empty board and all your pieces off to the side (2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, a queen, king, 8 pawns). White goes first and puts a piece on the board. The placement of the piece is restricted to their half of the board, they can place any available piece they want, but they cannot place a piece that puts their opponent in check.
Black goes second and places a piece on the board. Piece placement continues until all the pieces are on the board and then the game begins and plays like the chess960 variant. The king can castle using the same rules as chess960 and both the rook and king must be in row 1 for white row 8 for black.

I came up with this variant to encourage more checkmates during the mid-game and so far it seems to be holding. I also like how quickly you can develop the rooks if you choose to and how this can simulate some very interesting chess puzzles.
Let me know thoughts/feedback and if this could be made into a variant on the game. I still haven't come up with a name for it.
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It uses only standard pieces and board, and everything you know and love about chess stays true to chess.
The rules are as follows: As always, white moves first.
The game begins with an EMPTY board. The players alternate placing pieces and pawns on the board, starting with the kings. On the first move, each player MUST place his king on a square of their back rank. The 9 squares surrounding his king are his safe squares (squares your opponent may not place a piece). For example, if the king is on d1, his nine squares are d1-3,c1-3,e1-3. If he is on a1, its a1-3,b1-3,c1-3. You may NOT place your opponent in check. Move 2 will ALWAYS be a pawn move, and move 3 will ALWAYS be a piece move (you get the idea). Pawns may only be placed (3) squares away from the queening rank (so 5th for white, 4th for black). Pawns are LIMITED to ONE per file, however, you may place two pawns on a file if you do not have the ability to place it on its own file* (this may happen, sometimes all squares are taken on a file). You may only have 1 bishop of each color. There is no castling. En Passant exists. After the placing of the pieces is completed, a game of chess commences! (White moves first)
I have played many games of ZenChess and have found it very balanced.
Interesting game, I'll have to try it sometime. I like how the king has a not-so hidey hole, ha ha!

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