I had a bunch of fun playing around with the depth of field camera shots, especially the shots that look very painterly, (like impressionism, cubism, surrealism, etc.) I thought the cycles renders looked the most like a painting for depth of field camera shots, but not when it got too dark.
Red King, eevee, with Blades at 3:
Blue Rook dungeon freestyle, Blades at 4, rotation 45 degrees for diamond shape:
Blue King cycles:
Dungeon, focus on blue rook, dark mode:
Dungeon, focus on red queen, dark mode: