A minute to learn. A lifetime to master.
Four discs in the middle, crossed, and dark moves first. That's all the setting up there is. Place a disc so it closes a straight line of the other colour between it and one of yours: along, up or diagonally. Every disc closed that way turns over, in every direction at once.
Can't move? You pass, and the table does it for you and says so. When neither of you can move, it's over, and the colour with more discs on the board wins. Equal is a tie.