Chalk - Is This A Foul?

[DrCue'sProtege]

Let's say you are breaking a rack of 9-Ball. And that there is a piece of chalk sitting on the edge of the cushion. Right on the very edge. So you break and a ball knocks the piece of chalk off the table onto the floor.

Since you were the breaker and a ball hit the piece of chalk on your break - is that a foul?

r/DCP

 

[straightline]

Nit dependent.

 

[GideonF]

Let's say you are breaking a rack of 9-Ball. And that there is a piece of chalk sitting on the edge of the cushion. Right on the very edge. So you break and a ball knocks the piece of chalk off the table onto the floor.

Since you were the breaker and a ball hit the piece of chalk on your break - is that a foul?

r/DCP

If the ball hit the chalk, it’s a foul. If the chalk bounced off the rail due to the cushion compression, no foul.

3.6 TOUCHED BALL
It is a foul to touch, move or change the path of any object-ball except by the normal ball-to- ball contacts during shots. It is a foul to touch, move or change the path of the cue-ball except when it is in hand or by the normal tip-to-ball forward stroke contact of a shot.
The shooter is responsible for the equipment he controls at the table, such as chalk, bridges, clothing, his hair, parts of his body, and the cue-ball when it is in hand, that may be involved in such fouls. If such a foul is accidental, it is a standard foul, but if it is intentional, it is 3.16 Unsportsmanlike Conduct

 

[skor]

if it touched the chalk - foul
if the chalk just bounced off as the cushion compressed - not a foul
you'll need to be sure beyond doubt what happened, otherwise the benefit of the doubt goes to the shooter
if it bounced into the bed of the table and hit a ball - foul, if did not hit a ball - not a foul

btw, if you leave the rack template on the rail and it sticks out into the table and a ball hit it while hitting a rail, it's also a foul

 

[straightline]

Since jurisdiction was not specified I'd add you can match up according or discording to the rule. As in CB fouls only etc...

Regardless of the severity of interference you might have an option situation where the inning could be passed or taken away etc...

 

[Mensabum]

Let's say you are breaking a rack of 9-Ball. And that there is a piece of chalk sitting on the edge of the cushion. Right on the very edge. So you break and a ball knocks the piece of chalk off the table onto the floor.

Since you were the breaker and a ball hit the piece of chalk on your break - is that a foul?

r/DCP

I'd say no. Wouldn't that be ball to ball contact on shot??
Therefore no foul??