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Interesting facts about snooker
Snooker is a game for two players or two teams in which players use signals to place colored balls on the table and win the highest score.
The player must use the cue ball (white) to hit or throw an object ball in the pocket.
Players have to do this in a specific order first red, then color, and so on.
The red ball is worth one point, the yellow ball is two, the green ball is three, the brown ball is four, the blue ball is five, the pink ball is six, and finally
Players also score their opponents for fouls, which may include: missing all balls, marking a color in front of red and putting the cue ball in the pocket.
The popular term used in snooker
When the cue ball is placed in a pocket, it is often referred to as a "rake".
This is because the score is kept on the blackboard and when the player throws the cue ball their opponent literally "scratches" the player's score off the blackboard.
The highest breakout level a player can get involves picking a black after each red, then dropping all colors in a row.
This is referred to as the 147 level, and is generally referred to as the maximum rest rate.
However, there is a foul penalty when a player misses a red ball and then stalks their opponent, this happens in something called the "free ball".
This "free ball" rule means that the opponent can name a color that represents red, throw it, and then throw a color which means if a "free ball" is given with all
Snooker and Billiards are considered by many to be one of the safest sports in the world.
Snooker originated in India
It is widely accepted originating from India, developed from (English) billiards, a game involving two cue balls and single object ball.
However, this is not the source of Snooker.
The original inspiration for Snooker first came from Croquet, a game where colored balls are struck through rings on the ground with a mallet.
So it's easy enough to see how inspired it has been for a game in which colored balls are thrown into the pocket of a table with a cue.
When moving indoors for the first time, the balls are pushed (not hit) with "maces" - a metal or curved end is attached to the end of a narrow wooden handle.
The size of the maces made it difficult to execute precise shots and shots, and as a result many people resorted to grip rotation and narrow sides to hit the ball.
In the end, people found it more effective and this is how we know - and love - today very well developed.
As the signs become more advanced, so do the tips.
Players often put chalk on the top of the cue ball to help them control the ball better.
Although still referred to as "chalk", modern "chalk" does not contain chalk and actually includes a variety of fine abrasive particles!
Billiards table is recorded as early as 1740.
The table was owned by King Louis XI of France.
It is made of stone, with a large hole in the middle, and despite its differences from modern billiard tables, it is still covered with a green felt-like felt of modern tables.
All Snooker balls were originally made of ivory, but by the 1920s synthetic balls began to be produced.
Some of these synthetic balls contain certain elements used to make gunpowder, and yes, as a result they sometimes tend to explode when hit!
For a number of reasons, this causes these balls to quickly become out of fashion.
Today's balls are made of resin or resin.
Snooker competition
In the world of Snooker, both male and female competitions are held.
However, the first woman to be recorded as a Snooker champion is a man!
Frances Anderson has dominated women's games for almost 25 years and has won all the major championships in women's Snooker content.
In the end, her / his true identity was revealed as Orie Anderson although some say she / he was so convincing that it was not until they died that they were discovered by a
One of the greatest snooker of all time is Stephen Hendry, a seven-time World Champion who, like many other players, used the same hint for all of his major leagues.
His famous phone was sadly destroyed in 2003, when it emerged from the cargo hold of an airplane in Thailand.
What hurts Stephen most is the fact that he causes him trouble, which is the second most famous move that gets him in trouble, as he once paid £ 10,000 in ransom to thieves to get it back.
The longest and shortest game of snooker
Unlike some sports, Snooker can often change over a long period of time.
Snooker's longest ever (single game) frame was played between Shaun Murphy and Dave Harold 2008 in Beijing in the 2008 China Open and lasted 93 minutes and 12 seconds!
Snooker's shortest frame, on the other hand, lasted only 3 minutes and was won by Tony Drago in 2009, Drago famous for its quick clearances and often penalized by officials for not waiting for all the balls to stop.
