As Jan W. notes below, one should use ordered sets and then use ord_intersect/2 instead of the following code.
intersection_chk(A,B) :-
member(Item,A),
memberchk(Item,B), !.
Many Prolog programmers know of member/2 and less know of memberchk/2.
Some know of intersection/3 and ord_intersection/3 but there is no intersection_chk/2, thus posted.
In checking thousands of sets against each other there was no need for the full intersection but only the fact if the two sets have at least one item in common. I think of this as a short circuit evaluation, why do all of the checks if you can stop when you find one that succeeds.
As I have often noted, correctness comes before performance. In this case to get a correct result requires converting the list to ordered sets using list_to_ord_set/2 and then using ord_intersect/2 instead of the posted code above.
Test cases
:- begin_tests(my_set).
:- use_module(my_set).
intersection_chk_test_case(01,[ ],[ ],false ).
intersection_chk_test_case(02,[a-1 ],[ ],false ).
intersection_chk_test_case(03,[ ],[a-1 ],false ).
intersection_chk_test_case(04,[a-1 ],[a-1 ],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(05,[a-1 ],[b-1,c-1,a-2],false ).
intersection_chk_test_case(06,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,c-1,a-2],false ).
intersection_chk_test_case(07,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[a-1,c-1,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(08,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,a-1,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(09,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,c-1,a-1],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(10,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-2,c-1,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(11,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,b-2,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(12,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,c-1,b-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(13,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[d-1,c-1,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(14,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,d-1,a-2],true ).
intersection_chk_test_case(15,[a-1,b-2,c-2,d-1],[b-1,c-1,d-1],true ).
test(intersection_chk,[true,forall(intersection_chk_test_case(_Index,A,B,true))]) :-
intersection_chk(A,B).
test(intersection_chk,[fail,forall(intersection_chk_test_case(_Index,A,B,false))]) :-
intersection_chk(A,B).
:- end_tests(my_set).