econstor.eu/bitstream/2019/Chess as a powerful educational tool for successful people
Besides as a sport, chess has often been promoted as an educational tool, or as subject to be included in a curriculum (educational value is somewhat curiously missing from Botvinnik's chess is a sport, art and science dictum, though maybe it was too obvious to him). Here's one link, about a European study of the matter:
econstor.eu/bitstream/2019/pdf/Chess as a powerful educational tool for successful people:
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...9-p425-441.pdf
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.