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See Legler's Chess or Neo-Chess for a game which enjoyed a modest popularity in the 1920s. But I fear that success for chess variant inventors today will be measured in thousands, not millions, of players.

See Chess on a 12 by 12 board for a different kind of game. Now that the internet gives us free access to custom virtual boards, more people should be willing to try out chess variants that use the familiar 32 pieces. As computer monitors increase in size, I can even imagine something like the 6x6x6 variant I outlined in this 3D Chess thread catching on. Especially if each army is limited to 32 pieces that (mostly) come from two standard chess sets.