Comment by jprival

Reminds me tangentially of the study that found that strong chess players were much worse at recalling randomized positions than realistic ones: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03200937.pdf

I’m wary of inviting the too-easy “it’s just like how it works for people!” comparison, but the implied context and history of a game state seems to be important in processing it.