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The chess benefit from memorizing openings reminds me of two amazing articles reporting that many Scrabble champions are non-English speakers who've simply memorized the word list without having its contents in their vocabulary:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/f...

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2005/dec/11/features....



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