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I went through this sugya last week and there are at least 6 different shitos (that I�m aware of) discussed in the poskim on how Klal Yisroel can deal with the �missed lainings� situation once we�re zoiche to rachamei shamayim again – and the great Master of the World will permit us to return berov am into his mikdashei me�at. I have a nice list of marei mekoimos to share, but for now, please start with the Rema in Hilchos Krias Hatorah 135:2. I will bli neder elaborate once I�m feeling well enough bez�h.
May we all continue engaging with Hashem�s Torah to the best of our abilities in whatever predicament Hashem chooses to test us in!
See Yeshurun v. 21 pg. 758-9 (available here > http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46427&st=&pgnum=758&hilite=) where he dis-credits much in Aharon Yellnik’s (preacher at a Vienna Temple in the second half of the 1800’s) sefer Beis Hamedrash and shows the foolishness of the chess-story. By the way, the only source Yellnik quotes (in his intro at pg. XXXI) for the legend is a book of folk-tales or ma’aseh-buch.
Unfortunately, the story has now spread to several other jewish-legend-style books (each with their own version) while providing Yellnik’s Beis Hamedrash as the source.