An Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz CPU is required at a minimum to run Chess. Chess system requirements state that you will need at least 1 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 2 GB of RAM in your system. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 300 MB of free disk space available. By contrast, the game developers recommend somewhere around 500 MB of free disk space on your system drive. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 6100.
Chess will run on PC system with XP and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.