As a regular chess player, I found myself trying to find winning strategies, for example placing pieces in possibly attacking squares whilst also ensuring that the AI didn't have an avenue to my king or could remove my valuable placed pieces.
I found that this game is more about positioning rather than having a set plan for following moves.
I would recommend playing against the Red faction to start with as this seems to have the most understandable RNG and will allow you to get to grips with the mechanics of the game.
Truly innovative design with incredible depth due to the 4 playable chaos factions. Loved it!