A while back on a similar story about English scrabble posted here, someone commented with a story about how they were in a tournament where their opponent play

A while back on a similar story about English scrabble posted here, someone commented with a story about how they were in a tournament where their opponent played some super esoteric word, and then they played the word "twig", which their opponent immediately challenged. I have to imagine that at the highest levels play, people who are good at memorization will dominate regardless of fluency.