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Play the game and get a feel for it, and then watch videos of the best players playing, with commentary if possible. Before they make their move, decide in your head what your move would've been. You could even pause the video. Then see how it differs. If you can mimic the pros, you'll beat a lot of players.
The bonus of that is you don't have to get locked into a game, so you can do it whenever and not feel bad.
When you play, justify every single move by explaining it to yourself - it's a precise game so every decision should be justified, even the most simple. Explore every possibility (within reason). Use the time given to make the optimal play.
I can only speak for this working in Hearthstone Battlegrounds (a form of auto chess, which chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has had a go at playing and saw similarities).
I watch DogDog's daily hearthstone highlight VODS every day before I go to bed. I skip through the 20 minute videos to the parts where he's making plays. Despite being an otherwise casual Battlegrounds player, I once reached the top 1% of player rankings. Most seasons I make a good global rank without even really thinking about it.