Toe-to-Toe Chess is loosely based on Burmese Chess (Sittuyin). It is a game of placement as well as movement and capture. The Pawn lines start at right in front of each other, and there are plenty of short range pieces to slug it out.
 
While the Pawn line starts on the board, the other pieces start off the board, and are placed in the following sequence:
 
Black places 2 pieces;
White places 4 pieces;
Black places 4 pieces;
White places 4 pieces;
Black places 2 pieces.
 
Following that, each player alternatively swaps two of their pieces with each other (including Pawns). This stage is repeated three times. Then regular play starts.
 
The pieces are as follows:
 
King: steps 1 square in any direction to a safe square;
General: moves one or two spaces in any direction;
Chariot (Rook): slides vertically or horizontally up to 4 squares;
Knight: jumps 1 square orthogonally plus 1 square diagonally;
Elephant: steps 1 square diagonally or straight ahead;
Pawn: steps forward 1, captures diagonally, can jump over a piece in front of it, promotes on 8th rank to any previously captured piece, but requires extra move to promote.
 
A longer, more detailed description of Toe-To-Toe Chess can be found at http://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/toe-to-toe.html.