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In Freddy Bentivegna's Encyclopaedia, he gambled them and lost.

Do you have a pic?

Funnily enough I also speak French, German and Japanese with equal fluency...

I knew an old guy who complained that tables were shorter than they used to be, so they could stack more of them in trucks. I don't know whether he's right though.

I think when Jeff Bezos founded AZ Billiards, he always intended to expand overseas

But how do you say it in Arabic? :)

I would like a forum called 'Billiard and Pool History in Egypt' where every post is just that one quote from Anthony and Cleopatra

I did a little more reading, and it seems like there was a fad in Europe in the 1600s for books of mathematical puzzles. Apparently there was a lot of 'borrowing' of content. I might try to do some investigating and see where billiards first come into the genre, and what people do with it. If...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166306200236?mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1 Has anyone ever encountered this book before? It seems to be a very old book of tricks, including some billiard shots. If the ebay listing can be taken at...

What a great project. I've offered a very modest contribution to the content.

You could design an algorithm (as video games have), but if you generated one via machine learning it would probably be more effective. Then you could try to unravel or approximate its decisions. I don't think you can have a strictly unsolvable position unless somebody's got no shot (or really...

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought about it in terms of search optimisation, but it would help on Amazon too.

I ran my blurb through an AI blurb tool, and patched some of its suggestions together. This is the result: Journey back in time 200 years and unearth the legacy of John Thurston, the visionary who crafted history on green baize and transformed the game forever. Through Thurston's sales...

I was in two minds whether to have a short note at the start, so perhaps I should.

I remember finding that one in Lucas's 'Lives of the Gamesters' (1600s (from memory) gossip and tall tales, mentioned in Hendricks's History, quite good fun). It caused me a bit of head-scratching at first!

That mistake was bugging me so I went back and checked the original book, and Gillett has used 'Minguard' (twice). I recall having a vague hunch about that and dismissing it. I have a PDF of Thurston's version of 'The Noble Game' (1831) which uses 'Mingaud', so Gillett didn't get it from there...

Oh no! That would have been a bad error. Thank you.

I'm reproducing an old book on English billiards (Sidney Gillet's 1818 - 1843 The Earlier History of Billiard Tables and Accessories as seen from the sales journals of John Thurston of over one hundred years ago ), and wanted some feedback on my draft 'blurb' (which will be the description on...

Honestly, I think the well-funded web archives are more stable than AZB, in the very long term. If they were to come down, you'd hope at least that their content would be passed on to someone else. I was thinking it through. A personal google docs account still has the risk of being shut down...

No problem, I know the feeling of having more to do than you can fit in! I enjoyed figuring out the rules and tactics. It was a nice little experiment. Most of the tables here in the UK are reds and yellows, so I've still not tried it against anyone, but I will try to eventually! Stay well. As...