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CUE SPORTS

Q1. What are the various terminologies used in Cue Sports?

ANGLED : Path of the object ball (the ball to be hit) is blocked by the jaws of the pocket.
BAIZE: The wool covered is of the table.
BREAK: Disturbing the arrangement of the "Pyramid" with the cue ball using the Cue (stick) for further play. Number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table is called so in Snooker.
BACK SPIN : A method of striking the ball to cause some spin the cue ball, thus it
CUE BALL : The white color ball with which other balls are struck. Common to all the games.
CANON: The cue ball striking more than one object ball, naturally arranged in the course of play or a player using his skill to make one such arrangement, the second ball is said to have been canoned.
CENTURY: A break of more than 100 points.
CHINESE SNOOKER : A position in which a shot is made difficult by another ball being right behind the cue ball making it hard to hit the cue ball.
CUSHION: Any part of the rubber surrounding covered with Baize on the perimeter of the table.
DOUBLE: A pot achieved after the object ball has hit a cushion on the opposite side of the table.
DOUBLE KISS : A shot in which the cue ball strikes the object ball for a second time, usually after one or both have hit a cushion or another ball.
DRAG/DRAG SHOT : A shot played over a large distance but with much back spin, often utilized when delicate contact between cue ball and object ball is required.
FLUKE: A pot achieved by accident/chance rather than deliberation.
FRAME: A single game in a match played over a number of games.
FRAME BALL : The last ball a player needs to pot to win a frame.
IN HAND : The cue-ball is "in hand" when the player is allowed to place it anywhere in the "D" (a marked place in the table). This occurs at the start of the frame or after the cue ball has been pocketed or forced off the table.
JAWS: The curved areas of the cushions near a pocket.
KICK: An unexpectedly poor contact between the cue ball and object ball.
KISS: A soft contact between the two balls.
MASSE: A shot played with the cue held in an almost vertical position. Normally used when the path for the object ball is obstructed or in trick shots.
MATCH BALL : The last a player needs to pot to win a match.
MISCUE: A poor conduct between the cue and the cue ball usually due to poor cue action.
NAP: The alignment of the fibers of a cloth.
PYRAMID: The arrangement of the balls in that fashion is called so.
does not travel too much away from striking spot.
PACK: The red balls in their initial position or later in a game, the remaining reds grouped together in the initial position.
PLANT: Hitting one ball first, which, in turn possibly indirectly causes another ball to be potted.
POT: To hit a ball into one of the pockets.
PUSH SHOT/STROKE: The cue tip maintain contact with the cue ball when the cue ball hits another ball.
REPACK: By agreement to restart the frame.
REPOTTED BLACK: When the frame ends with both players having the same points, the black ball is put back in it's assigned spot with the cue ball in hand. The player who wins a toss of coin is allowed to strike the ball, pocket it and win the game.
ROLL THROUGH/FOLLOW THROUGH: The cue ball hit with top spin making full contact with the object ball allowing the cue ball to follow the path of the object ball.
ROLL UP : A shot played at a slow pace to simply leave the cue ball behind a color ball.
SCREW/SCREW SHOT: A shot with heavy back spin, causing the cue ball to travel back towards the striker after hitting the object ball.
SIDE SPIN: The cue striking the cue ball to one side of the center, to change the angle at which the white bounces of a cushion or off another ball.
SPLIT : A shot bending the cue ball in the pack of red balls and separating them.
STUN SHOT : A short played with the exactly enough back spin such that the cue ball stops dead upon hitting the object ball.
SWERVE: A shot played with extreme side spin causing the cue ball's trajectory to be curved.
TOP SPIN : A shot played by striking the cue ball slightly above the center, causing the ball to accelerate after contact with an object ball.
Q2. What is a Snooker game and how is it played?
A table game played with 15 Red balls and 6 other colored balls - Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink and Black.
The red balls carry one point each and the colored balls carry the following points:
Yellow - 2; Green - 3; Brown - 4; Blue - 5; Pink - 6; Black - 7;
(Unplayed value of the total balls is 42)
Once the arrangement of the balls (Pyramid) is disturbed by the break, a player was to first pocket all red balls and the colored balls in the order of point values, to finish the game. However, till all the red balls are pocketed, the colored balls can be pocketed (any colored) after every red ball, to increase the points tally, and to be replaced to the assigned spot.
Once all the red balls are pocketed, the colored balls can be pocketed in the ascending point value order, to complete the frame. The total value thus added decides the winner.
Every time the ball is hit, it should touch any of the red ball or the assigned ball, even if it is not pocketed. Otherwise, it is considered as a foul and the other cueist is allowed to take the strike by placing the cue ball at the desired place. This arrangement applies when the cue ball is pocketed or jumps off the table.
A single match is determined by the number of predetermined "frames".
Accumulation of points till it is interrupted for any reason is called a "Break".
Q3. What is a Billiards game and how is it played?
Like the snooker, it is also a table game normally for individuals (or teams) played in the same snooker table, played with only three balls- Red (Object ball), White for Player 1 and Yellow for Player 2. The table and the balls are of the same size as snooker. The game starts with both players, standing one the same end, simultaneously hitting a cue ball up the table, hitting the top cushion (opposite end) and allow the ball to roll back into the area called Baulk (the nearest of the players in this instance). The player who gets the ball closest to the near end baulk cushion shall have the option of choosing cue ball color, break or not to break (break is a term for hitting the arranged ball/s with the cue ball). The red ball is placed at an assigend spot (normally at the place where black ball is placed in snooker) and the first player begins the game from the other end D area with his cue ball, while the other players cue ball reamins off the table till he arrives to play. The game is played for a predetermined points (300)/time bound game and the player who reaches the level faster is the winner. The strategy would be to leave balls safe by creating either a double baulk (both object balls in balulk) or the red in baulk with the cue ball tight on the top cushion.
Q4. What are the scoring shots in a Billiards game?

1. CANON: Striking the cue ball so that it hits, in any order, the other cue ball and the red ball on the same shot - fetching 2 points (none potted).
2. WINNING HAZARD
ON THE RED: Striking the red bvall with one's cue ball so that the red enters a pocket - fetching 3 points; or WINNING A HAZARD ON THE WHITE: Striking the other cue ball with one's cue ball so that the other cue ball enters a pocket - fetching 2 points. 
3. LOSING HAZARD: Striking one's cue ball so that it hits another ball and then enters a pocket -- i) 3 points if the red ball was hit first ii) 2 points if the other cue ball was hit first; iii) 2 points if both red and the other cue ball are hit simultaneously. Combinations of the above may all be scored on the same shot. The most that can be scored in a single shot is 10 points - that is - the red and the other cue ball are both potted via a canon (the red must be struck first) and the other's cue ball is also potted making a losing hazard off the red. Winning is decided by the player reaching the determined points early or by any predetermined time bound game.
Q5. What is the maximum point that can be scored in a single attempt in the game of snooker?
147 - only if Black ball is continuously pocketed after every red ball, If any other colored ball is pocketed in between, it is not possible to reach this score of 147, but may end up with lesser points.
Q6. What is a Cue Sport?
An individual and table game played indoors with colored balls to be hit by a wooden stick called "Cue" and to be pocketed at the holes provided for in the table. Pocketing of every ball results in points gained and tallied to decide a game called "Frame".
Q7. Where was the game "Snooker" first invented?
In 1848, at Coonoor, Nilgiris by the British.
Q8. What are the famous and regularly played games in a Cue Sports?
Snooker, Billiards and Pool ball games are the popular games, played with different number and colored balls, about which we shall see later individually. Of the three, Snooker is a famous sport in India having produced some world class players.
Q9. What are the accessories used in cue sports?
Table: A rectangular table of 12 feet by 6 feet covered by Baize (a coarse woolen cloth) with 6 pockets - four on the corners and two pockets in the middle of the side cushions. The balls are arranged and played over this.' Cue: Is a tapered stick of 1.5 mtr in length and weight around 510-600 grams. Normally made of wood and occasionally covered with graphite and/or fiber glass. Balls: Made of Phenolic Resins. The white ball is called the "Cue ball" with which the other balls are to be hit and pocketed. Normal dia is 52.5 mm/around 2.5 inches).