[ardemchenkov]

Sure, thank you for this notice. There's one interesting scientific research about it, which I read before http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00.... As you can see there's no simple yes or no.

But another very good example is a book of Garry Kasparov "How life imitates chess", where he explains how it can be transparently connected with each other.

In my opinion chess can be used as a model of real life and if someone wants to learn something useful from it, he can get it.