Your vision about the benefits of the chess is too poor. And your assumption about life are incorrect.

1.- Chess have two great benefits, even in life:
* Empathy: You must read your opponent intention. That means try to discover its intention.
* Solving problems: Exists a huge amount of different ways to do a checkmate, and the complexy of any decision is hard. That means you learn to use your logical skills in a complex environments.

2.- Real life it is not fast. If you are only focus on fast decisions that means that you are only focus in short term plans… and that is wrong, the key is the balance. I recomend you this book: Thinking fast and slow