Yes, sure chess is good for developing the ability to think, to reason, to ponder, to calculate and analyze. Sure it develops the ability to read and remember. To look and think ahead, to carefully reason out and foresee the consequences of actions and to make the optimum move.
All that’s fine and dandy. And I [...]

Chess is a classic strategy game for two players, and is based
entirely around skill, with no luck involved. There is one
exception, which is in the initial choice of which player gets
the black or white pieces - this is often done at random - but
even this element of chance can be removed by the playing a
series [...]