I've played it once or twice against a friend who also didn't know how to play. Seems like an interesting game, very deep.
It's like you can see the player's minds working sometimes (maybe if I was better it would be more often), an interesting game to be sure.
I don't know if it's true, I could just be stealing a line from the movie Pi; but people in a movie once said that no two games are like, and thus the game serves as pseudo microcosm for the universe. Either way you should watch that movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ , and give the game a whirl.