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chess with cues, where gentlemen in waistcoats wage psychological war over colored spheres
means A cue sport played on a large baize table with 15 red balls and 6 colors of other values, where you score by potting balls in the correct order and often win by leaving your opponent unable to hit the ball they need.
from The word started as British military slang for a raw, inexperienced cadet — a 'snooker' being a greenhorn. The story goes that a young officer in the British Army in India in the 1870s, finding a fellow player fumbling a shot, jokingly called him a snooker, and the name attached itself to the new variant of billiards the soldiers were inventing. To 'snooker' someone — to trap them behind a ball with no clear shot — grew naturally from that sense of leaving a player helpless and out of their depth.
- name origin
- British slang for clueless first-year military cadets
- max break
- 147 points, snooker's flawless perfect game
- table size
- twelve feet long, double a pool table
- the tactic
- trapping foes behind balls they can't legally hit
- longest frame
- once lasted over two hours, single frame
world snooker championship — annual tournament held in sheffield since 1977, won 7 times by stephen hendry
crucible theatre sheffield — venue hosting world championship since 1977, where the sport's greatest moments occur