That's not always true. I've had to use off-brand chalk in bars that was little better than a bare tip. I agree that if it is a well-known chalk brand, if you miscue, it is more likely that you hit the cue ball too far from center.
On the other hand, I was giving a lesson on a home table with red cloth and red chalk. When we got to a spin-the-cue ball section, it was a disaster. The chalk didn't work. The student got new red chalk. It didn't work. Eventually we got to standard blue chalk (on green cloth) and everything was normal. That was a well-known brand of chalk. Maybe it was old, or dry, or wet, or counterfeit, or ....
