I said may or may not, but one example of a potential cross-over would be the ability of a chess player to rapidly visualize and rank possible moves, which sounds to me to be potentially pretty useful for laying out circuits or routing a PCB. Mostly my take was having evidence of some kind of intelligence and dedication, even in a field completely unrelated to electronics, is probably better than having no information at all.
Back in the 1800's there was a fair amount of moral panic about students playing chess and wasting away in their rooms and/or becoming violent. eg.
These days we think we know better but you only have to look at some of the utterances about the internet/WWW/AI to see that it isn't true.
Moral panics about anything "new" or "unfamiliar" abound.
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