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    Billiards for Beginners
    Billiards for Beginners
    Billiards for Beginners
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    Billiards for Beginners

    By John Roberts

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    This book is a complete guide to learning billiards, with instructions on all related aspects from holding a cue to mastering difficult shots. With simple instructions and a wealth of invaluable tips, this book will be of considerable utility to beginners and amateur players and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on snooker, pool, and billiards.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473352650
    Billiards for Beginners
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    John Roberts

     John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books, including The Intangibilities of Form (Verso, 2007), Philosophising the Everyday (Pluto, 2006) and Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2016). He edited the English translation of Boris Arvatov's classic Art and Production (Pluto, 2017).

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      Billiards for Beginners - John Roberts

      BILLIARDS FOR BEGINNERS

      By

      JOHN ROBERTS

      CHAMPION

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Contents

      Billiards, Pool and Snooker

      PREFACE

      BILLIARDS FOR BEGINNERS

      SCORES

      Billiards, Pool and Snooker

      Cue sports, also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill, generally played with a cue stick, used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions. Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, ‘billiards’ usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English, it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) was established in 1968 to regulate the professional game, while the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) regulates the amateur games.

      There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports: ‘Carom billiards’, referring to games played on tables without pockets, typically 10 feet in length, including balkline and straight rail, cushion caroms, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards and four-ball. ‘Pool’, covering numerous pocket billiards games generally played on six-pocket tables of 7-, 8-, or 9-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball, ten-ball, straight pool, one-pocket and bank pool. And ‘Snooker / English Billiards’; games played on a billiards table with six pockets called a snooker table (which has dimensions just under 12 ft by 6 ft). Such games are classified entirely separately from pool, based on a separate historical development, as well as a separate culture and terminology that characterize their play. More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.

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