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