Laser Chess is a two-player, strategy video game modeled as a board game with chess-like pieces, most of which have mirrored surfaces, and one of which is a laser cannon.
Ports written in BASIC and machine language were published in the June 1987 issue of Compute!
for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit computers as type-in programs.
Laser beams are absorbed if they hit the edge of the board.
In an MS-DOS re-implementation by Peter Venable (1994),[4] the pieces move like normal chess pieces on a 9x9 board, with the laser moving like a king, and a turn consists of making any number of rotations to one's pieces followed by either playing a chess move or firing the laser.