Scrabble geeks, rejoice!

The rest of us will just sit here and scratch our heads in puzzlement. Qi? Za?

Interestingly, the article acknowledges the importance of bluffing:

Against a human, Pate's highest point score in a single turn was 167 points for the misspelled word "graineries." Pate knew it was spelled incorrectly, but his opponent didn't challenge him, and the score stood.

What I want to know is, why doesn't everybody just use the Oxford English Dictionary? (...says the fellow who spent a substantial part of his undergraduate days poring over medieval and Renaissance English poetry....)