Nigel Richards (who tournament scrabble players regard as the game's undisputed GOAT) did not win the French championships just by having an eidetic memory (tho

Nigel Richards (who tournament scrabble players regard as the game's undisputed GOAT) did not win the French championships just by having an eidetic memory (though it surely helps!), he is also amazingly good at the tactics and strategy of scrabble, including anagramming, board vision, rack balancing, and calculation of probabilities and lookahead. there is a considerable amount of "intelligence" involved, however you want to define that.