George Duke wrote on Mon, Dec 8, 2014 05:19 PM UTC:
One GM Vuckevich solution of longer-term is to change the rules as you go:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18909.
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18727.
Vhttp://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18729.
I think Garry Kasparov renounced nonsensical New Chronology, or dismissed it. The chapter "How Rome Fell" earlier this thread from 'How the Irish Saved Civilization' is one source to fill in everyday things that were happening say from year 200 to (illiterate) Charlemagne, no longer Dark Age.