Provided that you have at least an Intel 82945G Express graphics card you can play the game. To play Glow Chess you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz to play the game. You will need at least 100 MB of free disk space to install Glow Chess. Make sure your have 200 MB of free disk space in order to install Glow Chess. Glow Chess system requirements state that you will need at least 512 MB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 2 GB of RAM in your system.
Glow Chess will run on PC system with xp and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.