Uiser:Lee Vilenski/snooker
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Snooker (pronountit UK /ˈsnuːkə/, US /ˈsnʊkər/)[2][3] i a cue sport tha originatit amang British Armie officer stationed i Indie i the second hauf o the 19t century. It is played on a rectangular table covered wi a green cloth (or "baize"), wi pockets at each o the fower corners an i the middle o each lang side. Uisin a cue stick an 21 coloured bawls, players must strike the white bawl (or "cue bawl") tae pot or pocket tha remainin bawls i the correct sequence, accumulatin pynts fur each pot. An individual gemme (or frame), is won bi the player scoring the maist pynts. A match i won when a player wins a predetermined batch o frames.
Three-time warld champion Mark Selby playing a practice game | |
Heichest govrenin body | WPBSA IBSF |
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First played | 1870 i Indie |
Characteristics | |
Contact | Non-contact |
Categorization | Cue sport |
Equipment | Snooker table, snooker balls, cue stick, triangle, chalk |
Venue | Snooker table |
Olympic | IOC recognition[1] |
Snooker gained identity in 1884 when armie officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, devised a set o rules that combined pyramid [en] and black puil [en]. The wird snooker wis a lang-uised military term fur inexperienced or first-year personnel. The gemme grew i popularity i the United Kingdom, an the Billiards Association an Control Club wis formed i 1919. It i noo governed bi the Warld Professional Billiards an Snooker Association (WPBSA).
The Warld Snooker Championship haes taken place syne 1927. Joe Davis, a key figure i the early growthe o the sport, won the championship 15 straucht times atween 1927 and 1946. The "modern era" began in 1969 efter the broadcaster BBC commissioned the snooker televeesion show Pot Black an later began tae air the Warld Championship in 1978. Key figures i the gemme war Ray Reardon i the 1970s, Steve Davis i the 1980s, an Stephen Hendry i the 1990s, each winnin sax or mair Warld championships. Syne 2000, Ronnie O'Sullivan haes won the maist Warld titles, wi five. Top professional players noo compete regularly aroond the warld and earn millions o pounds on the Warld Snooker Tour, which features players frae across the warld.