Yes, it does. There was a study of how well people could remember positions of chess pieces on a board. The general public did equally badly for both random arr

Yes, it does. There was a study of how well people could remember positions of chess pieces on a board. The general public did equally badly for both random arrangements and those that could actually appear in a game, but skilled chess players did well remembering arrangements that could appear in a game, but were no better than the general public on random configurations.