This is what I read!

A contender at the 2005 World Scrabble Championship Finals in London said mathematics and a good memory are necessary to win, but not a good vocabulary. A New York Times journalist described the event as "a time when language divorced itself from meaning" because a champion may create a high score using obscure English words such as zobo and ogive without knowing their meaning.

Just in case you are wondering (Ron) what those words mean I looked it up. I am sure the words I make up are somewhere in the dictionary. Hahaha!!

A zobo: is an animal which is a cross between a yak and a zebu. It is bred in Asia for its flesh and milk
An ogive: is a pointed, curved surface used to form the approximately streamlined nose of a bullet, shell, and a missile.