Peter Mayhew Quotes

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.