The trouble is you can have a kid who's parents taught them chess and all they focused on was the proper moves by rote. And that kid can be shit at everything else in life.

Graduating college is less about finding the right answer, but knowing how to get to that answer and why you pick a certain method over other things. Its why the profs hound people to show their work in a problem.

I had a programmer dude working for us, he would achieve results but he (and we) never quite knew if they were valid because he had a hard time explaining how he got to certain assumptions. He had no formal college training, he just picked up stuff quickly by trial and error. It was suggested to him he go back and take a programming basics course to get the fundamentals down on how and why of projects, but he didn't see the value in doinf it, but everyone else he reported to could see the gaps in reasoning.

Then they would still fare poorly against those who both excel at chess and have gone to college.