Inside Out - Genesis Potini

He's a bit loud, sometimes! It's always different, he's always changing.

– Liz Potini describes her husband Genesis Potini

Are you dreaming or what? You're dreaming, you're the biggest dreamer...

– Genesis Potini enjoys taunting his chess partner in a game of speed chess

Genesis was an unstoppable person. Once he had something in his mind, you couldn't stop him from doing it and he would just go crazy with what he wanted to do.

– Noble Keelan remembers his friend Genesis Potini, Hawke's Bay Today, 7 December 2017

A lot of people won't even admit that they have a psychiatric illness. They don't want to face it and they'll pretend they haven't got it, and they won't take their medicines and so on...Genesis might do it for you, he'll get out all his pills and he'll show off all the pills he has to take, he shows them off to our visitors.

– Liz Potini on her husband's openness about his mental health condition

Someone once asked me 'who are you?' ... I live in a state of being Māori, being human, and also I live in a state of being a chess player. But I do not live in a state of being a bipolar victim. I have moments where I'm manic or depressive, but I do not live in a state of being 'mad'.

– Chess mentor and mental health advocate Genesis Potini describes himself, near the end of the documentary

In 2003, Potini, who died in 2011, asked the school's principal Nick Chapman if he would be interested in a chess workshop for students. Chapman accepted the offer and the pupil's passion for the game grew until it became a classroom staple. He said five and six-year-olds started out playing checkers. When they turned seven children began learning chess, and when they finish as 12 and 13-year-olds most could beat their parents and teachers. "In the real world kids need strategies and they need to be able to 'future think' which chess gives them."

– Nuhaka School Principal Nick Chapman describes the skills his kids get playing chess, Stuff, 6 November 2015

To charge nothing is acceptable. To charge something is also acceptable, but to charge something ridiculous like one cent a week is unheard of. So we charge one cent a week because we don't believe that people should play chess with the burden of subscriptions and fees placed upon them.

– Genesis Potini on Eastern Knight Chess Club's low fees

I am a chess player. Some might call me a chess freak, but it's all good. I am one of the founders of the Eastern Knights Chess Club. I like to think of us as a family, a chess playing whānau.

– Genesis Potini introduces himself, near the start of the documentaryt