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Lol! ... You made me look, Christine! I have used a queen 4 times.
Hyperchess and Walkers & Jumpers, both 4D, have queens. Texas Two-Step and
Fluid Chess also have queens. I don't think anybody plays those games
here, although Hype apparently has a couple of fans - just not here.
There's also one or two monstrosities in the CVwiki that use queens.
Nobody plays them, either. 

You are right, I tend to not like queens. At least, I don't use them
except in highly unusual circumstances. Or bishops. And the rooks are only
there because they made me do it. Most of my pieces only move 2 or 3
squares - only a handful move 4 squares. And they tend to play on very
large boards.

Those 2 factors, short range pieces and large boards, make initial
placement less relevant, and the idea of very modest variants becomes
effectively irrelevant in games like Chieftain, where the pieces are just
dumped by the edge of the board and left to deploy as they will. 

Questions for all who wish to answer: Did you play chess before you found
chess variants, and how much? Favorite game, take it or leave it, hated it
so I made it different? I stopped playing chess a long time ago, and
switched to wargames. I design with a wargamer's eye, not a chessplayer's
eye. Obviously that affects my designs. How about the rest of you?