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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.