>>12408629There was some study that used some school time to give students either chess classes or extra math classes. They found that the students who had chess classes performed better in math than those who had extra math classes.
So I'd say there is some utility to learning to play.
if you've never played chess before 1000 elo isn't bad. If I could learn chess again from scratch I'd put some time into playing chess 960 (fischer random), so that I wouldn't learn the bad habits of copying the openings of other players
