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presumably it's because the stressors of poverty forces one to think in the short-term, while Chess incentivizes long-term strategy.

If you learn not to take a pawn because 5 moves later you'll lose a bishop, maybe you won't take on credit card debt when 5 months later you owe 10% more in interest.

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It also incentivizes taking as much material as you can right away to gain an advantage. It’s all positional and contextual. Not sure you can conclude that there’s any concrete life lesson in here.

lol credit cards that's a million privilege steps ahead most children in the world do not have two hours to spend on their own education much less chess they work etc