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This seems like a really cool idea from the late Problemist
As far as admin is concerned, I assume it desirable to have a link to this as Kazan Chess (the original name), and to credit Grolman as the inventor? Since it looks like you've done a bit of filling in the details, it's at your discretion whether you wish to take coïnvention credit.
Since it originates as a problem theme, two further questions arise:
I imagine there are more interesting ways to resolve the Castling issue than simply disallowing it outright (other pieces either have to fill both vacated squares where possible, or just the king's one as Castling seems to be a
K
move by problem convention (see the discussion of Half‐Neutral pieces in the same Problemist issue), and we could consider aK
orR
unmoved if it has only moved involuntarily), but this solution works too