This is a video celebrating the fusion of chess and jiu jitsu by CTRL Industries clothing and the nonprofit 501(c)3 Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF). The song "A Technical Flow" by Kalhi illustrates the powerful connections between chess and jiu ...
A-Plus from Hieroglyphics and Rakaa Iriscience from Dilated Peoples on Deck for Street Games Vol. 1 Digital Mixtape
Hip-Hop Chess Federation Taking Submissions for Digital MixtapeJuly 5th 2013
San Francisco, CA- The Hip-Hop Chess Federation (H...
Last week I was invited to speak as a keynote at Youth Commissions 6th Annual Citywide Youth Conference . It was heldat San Jose City Hall to a group of about 300 teens who were seeking to venture out into the tech world. This is a clip from that ...
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Hip-Hop Chess Federation Announces Live The Game Summer Camp in San Jose!
HHCF Pushes To Improve Self Esteem & Academic Achievement With Summer Camps For Kids & Teens
June 6t...
I had an amazing time speaking to St. Louis teens about chess, Hip-Hop and martial arts. I was lucky enough to be invited by the World Chess Hall of Fame to talk to about 1,000 kids in the course of the week. Maurice Ashley and I had an exchange o...
From Atoms To Bits, Physics Shows Entropy As The Root Of Intelligence
By: Anthony Wing Kosner
We have been taught to think of entropy as a bad thing. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” wrote Wi...
Live the Game: National Experts Convene in St. Louis
to Highlight the Powerful Fusion of Chess, Hip Hop, and Martial Arts
April 24, 2013 (St. Louis, MO) -- Look closely and you’ll see it at the beginning of the new Justin Timberlake video fe...
This new video is a remake of the Opera House Massacre blended with a jiu jitsu match in an artistic piece that is truly one of a kind. If anybody is wondering the chess set was borrowed from The Chess Piece dot com.
Hip-Hop Chess Federation Founder, Adisa Banjoko recently spoke at Harvard about the connections between Hip-Hop, chess and martial arts. Here is a short clip from that talk. A longer audio version will be ready soon. Learn more about upcoming HHCF...
Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA Gives Exclusive Interview to Bishop Chronicles GZA Explains the Creation of the Liquid Swords Cover, Talks Chess, UFC & Dark Matter.
Dec 13th 2012, San Francisco, CA- Founder of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) Adisa Ban...