When I upgraded my machine, I backed up my windows partition to a different drive, so I still have all the old software available. I followed the instructions at http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what-happened-to-solitaire-and-minesweeper-in-windows-8/
First, on your Windows 7 computer, navigate to **C:\Program Files**, locate the Microsoft Games folder, and copy it to a USB drive (or other removable media). (I already had that drive mounted, so I just copied)
Next, navigate to the *C:\Windows\System32* folder on your Windows 7 system and copy the CardGames.dll file to the USB drive, as well.
Copy the Microsoft Games folder to its old location at C:\Program Files\ on Windows 8.
Copy the CardGames.dll file to the Solitaire subfolder. You’ll also have to copy this file to the FreeCell, Hearts, and SpiderSolitaire folders if you want to play those games.
Read that bit about running the patcher. After you do that, they will run. They won't show up in menus though, so you will need to create a shortcut for them.
Chess Titans ran fine! http://i.imgur.com/qEFA8Ca.png