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Billiards is a common game although specific variations exist. But, no matter what your particular game or style is, the basics are the same. With a good grip, stance and shooting habits, you should be able to master any game of billiards you try. more »
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Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports), also known as billiard sports,"IOC">"WCBS"> are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .
Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the words 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.
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
*Carom billiards, referring to games played on tables without , including among others balkline and straight rail, cushion caroms, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards
*Pool, generally played on a table with six pockets, including among others eight-ball (the worlds most widely played cue sport), nine-ball, straight pool, one-pocket and bank pool.
*Snooker, which while technically a pocket billiards game, is generally classified separately based on its historic divergence from other games, as well as a separate culture and terminology that characterize its play.
More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.
Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century; to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots in her billiard table cover in 1586; through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line "lets to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07); to the dome on Thomas Jeffersons home Monticello, which conceals a bi read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue+sports
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