Originally proposed by MattMacauley; several games of it were played during a BarbeCue one night. Opinions on its worth are mixed.
Personally, I think it's an amusing idea, and I had fun playing the few games of it that I did; I don't think it possesses anything like the lasting interest of ChesSers itself, though.-MicahSmukler
also known as Stress-Hack.
Sounds vaguely like a chess variant known (to me) only by the name of Wild Five, wherein White starts on the seventh and eighth ranks and Black starts on the first and second... so the only pieces that can move at the start are the knights and the pawns are all one step away from promotion. Apparently a time control of 0:00 + 1 second/move is popular among those with good latency.