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What do we think about chess? My 5 year old daughter has become enamored with it lately, wants to play multiple times a day, doing some puzzles, all that good stuff. She's definitely improving fast - she impresses adults she plays who know how to play but aren't good haha - I'd benchmark at her at like a Class G player (ELO in the 600-700 range). I'm probably around an 1100 ELO, maybe a bit higher when I'm really focused.
Basically, trying to decide how much to encourage improvement in this vs other skills she enjoys (soccer, reading, etc) given Chess is a bit of a dead end? But if she enjoys it then it is a fun hobby and I like playing her...thinking we might try out a local scholastic club and see what we think.
As far as hobbies go, I think chess is pretty well respected. Socially being known to be good at chess won't typecast her as the wrong type of person. Practically unlikely to go anywhere big as you note (but the same is true of soccer, reading, etc). It might be a good place for practicing how to learn e.g. how to find good sources of information, when to rely on mental shortcuts, how to intentionally memorize things.
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