What you're saying is if someone got good at chess then they would be better suited to succeed in college. There may be merit to that to some degree, but in the end, that person would be going to college to get a better education, and may have a leg up on other less analytical people. OP is suggesting replacing college with things like Chess or Go. College also teaches specifically in different fields. Knowing how to play Chess doesn't teach a person about seg faults, stack overflows, or computer architecture. A college can if that's the field a person decides to pursue.