![]() ![]() The word snooker was a well-established derogatory term used to describe inexperienced or first-year military personnel. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ootacamund, Madras, and Jubbulpore, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids. ![]() A snooker match ends with one of the players having won a predetermined number of frames. An individual frame of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white cue ball to pot the other twenty-one snooker balls in the correct sequence, accumulating points for each pot. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈ s n uː k ər/, US: / ˈ s n ʊ k ər/) is a cue sport that was first played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century. Snooker table, snooker balls, cue stick, triangle, chalk, rests, scoreboard ![]() Four-time world champion Mark Selby playing at a practice table during the 2012 Masters tournament ![]()
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