One of the beautiful things about chess is that it consumes the player intellectually. It becomes more challenging as the player grows more competitive.
Although chess stimulates the mind intellectually, chess and education have nothing in common. People tend to disbelieve that. Bobby Fischer dropped out of high school in Brooklyn at age 14 and became the greatest chess player the world had ever seen. He won the world championship title, wrote chess treaties that were in use for generations and made a great deal of money playing high stakes chess.