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Well, I suppose then that it depends on if you are talking about the PROFESSIONAL game, or a game between "regular Joe's" (or "regular Bruce's" for my Australian friends). I think the Foul and a Miss Rule is proper for professional play, but it is a bad idea for club play. Here is a reference as...

How fast would you like this game to be? There are frames that a player runs a century after the opening breakoff and the opponent concedes in less than five minutes of play. Then again, a long safety bout can run well over an hour. I never took physical statistics but I would estimate 15 to 20...

Huh.............interesting. I don't think that I am qualified to agree or disagree with your statement with any sort of authority, but what I can say is that in my life experience, the Law of Unintended Consequences is absolutely universal in its application to any given enterprise. While ANY...

Just my humble opinion, but I think you guys are getting away from Shaun Murphy's original article. To quote it: "From the outset it's important that we make a clear distinction between 'the Kick' and a bad contact.....they're not the same thing. A bad contact is something that has been in the...

I think that none can argue but that Bob's scientific approach as a student of our pastime of cue sports is beyond reproach. I agree with you, Bob, that Shaun (or his university guy) is barking up the wrong tree here. I have for a long time been of the opinion that kicks are a result of the...

I think this is referring to the same phenomenon I stated earlier... "...you will find it easier to lay wicked snookers on the 10x5--the (relatively speaking) bigger balls are simply a larger interference to the white's pathlines to the object balls." I believe he is stating the same thing in...

The old saying is "(Snooker) is like sex--even when it's bad, it's still pretty good." I think that nearly all will agree that playing on a full size table, with proper cushions, cloth and pocket cuts is the best snooker experience. After all, isn't one of the main points to try to emulate and...

Snooker League 2013/2014 Despite today's weather forecast for record temperatures of 95 degrees in mid-September, I am looking ahead to the cooler weather and the coming season of Snooker in the Chicagoland area. Again this year, starting in mid-November, anyone in the general area between...

Scaramouche, I just wanted to personally thank you for your informational posts such as this. Yesterday, I was watching live a particular match in the Bluebell Wood Open and I saw a frame where I thought to myself that I would very much like to see a recording of that again as it had some...

To listen to some of the "ignorance is bliss" crowd over there, you would think that Corey has got a virtual lock on winning at Sheffield next year. As I see it, the problem with snooker in the US is that it is a "chicken or egg" scenario. That is, anyone who can or would provide capital...

Congratulations, Corey Deuel. A very impressive display of snooker. His technical capability was apparent from early on, but to succeed in snooker requires more than just the physical aspect. As he gathered experience, he very quickly learned how to play "the game" so that his shot selection...

Congratulations to the Champion of the First Annual ACES Snooker League Tournament! In preparation for his bid at the US National Snooker Championship, Vaishal Talati has secured his position as the champion of the Chicagoland area by handily finishing the tournament phase of the league with a...

It is not a particularly attractive table to my eye but it looks like it is standard dimensions. The Miz was a big guy so maybe its just a matter of perspective. :)

:smile: Just being funny above. But there really is no magic. It is a combination of a few things, the most important being PRECISION. Such precision that you and I normally cannot muster. As for common club tables, the cloth can actually help you. A heavy cloth with strong nap will actually...

They're pros.

The video is from 1962 (not really all that long ago in my eyes) and by that time, dimensions had long been established with perhaps just a few minor tweaks here and there. Currently, ball diameter is specified as being metric, 52.5 mm which is indistinguishable by eye or hand from the long...

Very nice. Looks like a classy room. His form, as he would like to say, is the picture of "compactness", unlike that depicted in the "Dogs Playing Pool" print that I have hanging in my room. Joe developed the concept of the "snooker stroke" as being distinct from the (English) billiards stroke...

"If I have seen further it is (only) by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton There are those who argue that, while Joe Davis was undoubtedly the best of his time, he could not hold a candle to the talents of the modern generation of players and he could not be competing at...

Wow! You can color me impressed. I had never even heard of the game of snooker, let alone the name of Joe Davis until after he was gone so I could never be so fortunate as to shake his hand. However, the truth is, when I read his books, I LITERALLY feel like he is in the room there with me...

Most of what I know about how to play and understand this game comes through the power of the teaching of the great Joe Davis although I never knew who he was until long after his passing. I learned the game in what is often considered its heyday in the early and mid-80s, mainly through the...