However, knowledge of Chess is not required. A little experimentation and practice will get you playing in no time. Before your first real game, you may want to try moving pieces around and firing the Laser, just to get a feel for the game. Then start a new game using the Load Game icon, which looks like a disk with an arrow pointing away from it. Pieces in Laser Chess move just as in Chess.
Many pieces have reflective surfaces which cause the laser to bounce.
Others have even more special properties. It allows you to select a piece, then shows which spaces it may move to, followed by a demonstration of its response to Laser fire. There are, however, a few even more special pieces. The knight, for example, is a beam splitter. When it is fired upon, it can split the beam into two.