Discoveries do not happen on the beaten path.
Creativity is hard work, requiring a person to exert maximum mental and intellectual energy, and it does not guarantee success, fame, or money.

By playing chess, a child learns what traditional school disciplines do not teach well: to correlate mental processes with practical actions, to look for theoretical answers to practical questions, to creatively apply the knowledge gained during the lesson without expecting ready-made solutions from the theory.
Chess stimulates independent thinking, rewarding the search for non-trivial solutions with an aesthetic sense of beauty.
Chess teaches creativity.