Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, 5 by 10 foot (approximately 1. 5 × 3 m) pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds. A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards-type games At its simplest form, the object of most carom games is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th century France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. [1]
There are a large array of carom billiards disciplines. Some of the more prevalent today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of invention): straight rail, cushion caroms, balkline, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards. Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards) sometimes called by its original name the indirect game, is a Carom billiards discipline generally played on Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a Carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 There are many other carom billiards games, predominantly intermediary or offshoot games combining elements of those already listed, such as the champion's game, an intermediary game between straight rail and balkline, as well as games which are hybrids of carom billiards and pocket billiards, such as English billiards played on a snooker table and its descendant games, American four-ball billiards, and cowboy pool. Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated also known variously as the English game Snooker is a Cue sport that is played on a large Baize -covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long Cowboy pool, sometimes just called cowboy, is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game with more standard [1]
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Etymology
The word "carom", which simply means any strike and rebound, came into use in the 1860s and is a shortening of Spanish (and Portuguese) carambola and French carambole, which was earlier used to describe the red object ball. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India),[1][2][3] also known as star fruit. Etymology is the study of the History of Words &mdash when they entered a language from what source and how their form and meaning have changed over time ||-||-|}The carambola is a species of Tree native to Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka and is popular throughout Southeast Asia, Marathi (mr मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of what is considered western India. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. Folk etymology is a term used in two distinct ways A commonly held misunderstanding of the origin of a particular word a False etymology. [4]
Equipment
Cloth
Cloth has been used to cover billiards tables since the 15th century. In fact, the predecessor company of the most famous maker of billiard cloth, Iwan Simonis, was formed in 1453. Most cloth made for carom billiards tables is a type of baize that is dyed green, and is made from 100% worsted wool, which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little resistance across the table bed. Baize is a coarse Woollen (or in cheaper variants Cotton) Cloth, sometimes called " Felt " in American English based on a Worsted (pronunciation) is the name of a Yarn, the Cloth made from this yarn and a yarn weight category TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles The green color of cloth was originally chosen to emulate the look of grass, and has been so colored since the 16th century. However, the color also serves a useful function, as humans have a higher light sensitivity to green than to any other color, allowing play for longer periods of time without eye strain. Asthenopia (aesthenopia or eye strain is an ophthalmological condition that manifests itself through nonspecific Symptoms such as fatigue red eyes eye strain pain [1][5]
Balls
![A standard set of carom billiards balls (61.5 mm [27⁄16 in] diameter), including a red object ball, a plain white cue ball, and a dotted cue ball for the opponent. Some games use an additional object ball.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Carom_billiards_balls.jpg/200px-Carom_billiards_balls.jpg)
Modern billiard balls are made from phenolic resin or other highly resilient plastics, are normally 61. Phenolic resin can include any of various synthetic Thermosetting Resins such as Bakelite, obtained by the reaction of Phenols with simple Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products 5 mm (27⁄16 in) in diameter, weigh between 205 and 220 grams (7. 23 – 7. 75 ounces; 7. 5 is average),[6] and are significantly larger and heavier than their pocket billiards counterparts. While UMB, the International Olympic Committee-recognized world carom billiards authority, permits balls as small as 61. 0 mm (approximately 23⁄8),[6] no major manufacturer produces such balls any longer, and the de facto standard is 61. 5 mm. The three standard balls in most carom billiards games consist of a completely white cue ball, a second cue ball with typically a red or black dot on it (to aid in differentiation between the two cue balls), and a third, red ball. In some sets of balls, however, the second cue ball is solid yellow. [1] Both types of ball sets are permitted in tournament play. [7]
Billiard balls have been made from many different materials since the start of the game, including clay, wood, ivory, plastics (including celluloid, Bakelite, crystalate, and phenolic resin) and even steel. Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained Minerals which show plasticity through a variable range of Water content, and Wood is hard fibrous lignified structural tissue produced as secondary Xylem in the stems of Woody plants notably trees but also shrubs Ivory is formed from Dentine and constitutes the bulk of the Teeth and Tusks of animals such as the Elephant, Hippopotamus, Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from Nitrocellulose and Camphor, plus dyes and other agents Bakelite (ˈbеɪkɨlaɪt is a material based on the thermosetting Phenol formaldehyde resin polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride developed in 1907–1909 by Steel is an Alloy consisting mostly of Iron, with a Carbon content between 0 The dominant material from 1627 until the early- to mid-twentieth century was ivory. The search for a substitute for ivory use was not for environmental concerns but based on economic motivation and fear of danger for elephant hunters. It was in part spurred on by a New York billiard table manufacturer who announced a prize of $10,000 for a substitute material. The first viable substitute was celluloid billiard balls, invented by John Wesley Hyatt in 1868, but the material was volatile and highly flammable, sometimes exploding during manufacture. John Wesley Hyatt ( November 28, 1837 &ndash May 10, 1920) was an American inventor [1][8]
Billiard cues
Billiard cues have specialized refinements making them different from the typical pool cue which many people are more familiar with. Such cues tend to be shorter overall, with a shorter ferrule, a fatter butt, a wooden pin joint, a fast taper, and a smaller tip diameter as compared with pool cues. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles These features make the cue significantly stiffer, which aids in handling the larger and heavier billiard balls as compared with pool cues, but more importantly, act to reduce deflection. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles Deflection, sometimes called squirt, may be defined as displacement of the cue ball's path away from the parallel line formed by the cue stick's direction of travel. It is a factor that occurs every time english (sidespin) is employed, and its effects are magnified by speed. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles In some carom billiards games, deflection plays a large role because many shots require extremes of english, coupled with great speed; a combination typically minimized as much as possible, by contrast, in pocket billiards. [1]
Heated slate
The slate bed of billiard tables are often heated to about 5 °C/9 °F above room temperature, which helps to keep moisture out of the cloth to aid the balls rolling and rebounding in a consistent manner, and generally makes a table play faster. Room temperature (also referred to as ambient temperature) is a common term to denote a certain Temperature within enclosed space at which humans are accustomed A heated table is required under international carom rules and is an especially important requirement for the games of three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards. Heating table beds is an old practice. Queen Victoria of England (1819–1901) had a billiard table that was heated using zinc tubes, although the aim at that time was chiefly to keep the then-used ivory balls from warping. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Zinc (ˈzɪŋk from Zink is a Metallic Chemical element with the symbol Zn and Atomic number 30 The first use of electric heating was for an 18. 2 balkline tournament held in December 1927 between Welker Cochran and Jacob Schaefer, Jr. Welker Cochran ( October 7, 1897 &ndash July 26, 1960) was an American professional Carom billiards player who won world [1] The New York Times announced it with fanfare: "For the first time in the history of world's championship balkline billiards a heated table will be used. . . "[1][9]
History of games
Straight rail
Straight rail, sometimes referred to as carom billiards, straight billiards, the three-ball game, the carambole game, and the free game in Europe, is thought to date to the 1700s, although no exact time of origin is known. Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered It was known as French caroms, French billiards or the French Game in early times, taking those bygone names from the French who popularized it. The object of straight rail is simple: one point, called a "count", is scored each time a player's cue ball makes contact with both object balls (the second cue ball and the third ball) on a single stroke. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles A win is achieved by reaching an agreed upon number of counts. [1]
At straight rail's inception there was no restriction on the manner of scoring. However, the technique of crotching, or freezing two balls into the corner where the rails meet—the crotch— vastly increasing counts, resulting in an 1862 rule which allowed only three counts before at least one ball had to be driven away. Techniques continued to develop which increased counts greatly despite the crotching prohibition, especially the development of a variety of "nurse" techniques. The most important of these, the rail nurse, involves the progressive nudging of the object balls down a rail, ideally moving them just a few centimeters on each count, keeping them close together and positioned at the end of each stroke in the same or near the same configuration such that the nurse can be replicated again and again. [1]
Professional straight rail in the U. S. only had a six year run from 1873 to 1879. It was succeeded by a game specifically designed to curb the use of the rail nurse so that spectators would not be subject to its repetitiveness. Today, straight rail play is relatively uncommon in the U. S. but retains popularity in Europe, where it is considered a fine practice game for both balkline and three-cushion billiards. Additionally, Europe hosts professional competitions known as pentathlons after the ancient Greek Olympic competitions, in which straight rail is featured as one of five billiards disciplines at which players compete, the other four being 47. The pentathlon (as opposed to the Modern pentathlon) was an athletic event in the Olympic Games and other Panhellenic Games of Ancient The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca 1 balkline, cushion caroms, 71. Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards) sometimes called by its original name the indirect game, is a Carom billiards discipline generally played on 2 balkline and three-cushion billiards. [1]
The champion's game
- Further information: Balkline and straight rail
The new game appearing in 1879, called the champion's game or limited-rail, is considered an intermediary game between straight rail and balkline and was designed with the specific intent of frustrating the rail nurse. Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered [1] The game employed diagonal lines – balklines – at the table's corners to regions where counts were restricted, thus "cutting off four triangular spaces in the four corners, [taking] away 28 inches [711 mm] of the 'nursing' surface of the end rails and 56 inches [1422 mm] on the long rails. "[10] Ultimately, however, despite its divergence from straight rail, the champion's game simply expanded the dimensions of the balk space defined under the existing crotch prohibition which was not sufficient to stop nursing. [1]
Balkline
Balkline succeeded the champion's game, adding more rules to curb nursing techniques. Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered There are many variation of balkline but all divide the table into marked regions called balk spaces. Such balk spaces define areas of the table surface in which a player may only score up to a threshold number of points while the object balls are within that region. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles [1][11][12]
In the balkline games, rather than drawing balklines a few inches from the corners, the entire table is divided into rectangular balk spaces, by drawing balklines a certain distance lengthwise and widthwise across the length of the table a set number of inches parallel out from each rail. This divides the table into eight rectangular balkspaces. Additionally, rectangles are drawn where each balkline meets a rail, called anchor spaces, which developed to stop a number of nursing techniques that exploited the fact that if the object balls straddled a balkline, no count limit was in place. [1]
For the most part, the differences between one balkline game to another are defined by two measures: 1) the spacing of the balklines, and 2) the number of points that are allowed in each balk space before at least one ball must leave the region. Generally, balkline games, and their particular restrictions, are given numerical names indicating both of these characteristics; the first number indicated inches and the second, after a dot, indicates the count restriction which is always either one or two. For example, the name 18. 2 balkline, one of the more prominent balkline games, indicates that balklines are drawn 18 inches (460 mm) distant from each rail, and only 2 counts are allowed in a balkspace before a ball must leave. [1]
Over its history balkline has had many variations including 8. 2, 10. 2, 12. 2,[1] 13. 2,[13] 12½. 2, 14. 1, 14. 2, 18. 1, 18. 2, 28. 2, 38. 2, 39. 2, 42. 2, 45. 1, 45. 2, 47. 1, 47. 2, 57. 2 and 71. 2 balkline. In its various incarnations, balkline was the predominate carom discipline from 1883 to the 1930s when it was overtaken by three-cushion billiards (and pocket billiards). Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles Balkline is not very common in the U. S. but still enjoys a large popularity in Europe and the Far East. The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia. [1]
Cushion caroms
Cushion caroms, sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game,[14] is traceable to 1820s Britain and is a descendant of the doublet game dating to at least 1807. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927 The game is sometimes incorrectly referred to as one-cushion or one-cushion billiards, which is the direct translation of its name into English from various other languages such as Spanish ("una banda") and German ("einband"). The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. [1]
The object of the game is to score cushion caroms, meaning a carom off of both object balls with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second object ball. Cushions caroms was defunct for a number of years, but was revived in the late 1860s as another alternative to straight rail, for the same reasons that balkline developed, i. Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered e. , as an alternative to the tedium engendered by the use of the "rail nurse" (see above). Cushion caroms is rarely played in the U. S. , but it still enjoys some popularity in Europe. [15][1]
Three-cushion billiards
In three-cushion billiards, sometimes called three-cushion carom, three-cushion, three-cushions, three-rail, rails and the angle game, the object is to carom off both object balls with at least three rails being contacted before the contact of the cue ball with the second object ball. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles Arising sometime in the 1870s, the origin of three-cushion billiards is not entirely known. It is undisputed that the Internal Revenue Collector of the Port of St. Louis, one Wayman C. McCreery, popularized the game. [1][16] At least one publication categorically states he invented the game as well. [17]
The very first tournament at three-cushion billiards was held in 1878 in St. Louis, won by New Yorker Leon Magnus. The City of New York The game was infrequently played prior to 1907, with many top players of the era voicing their dislike of it. However, in 1907 after the introduction of the Lambert Trophy, the game became increasingly popular both in the U. S. and internationally. [1][18]
By 1924 3-cushion had become so popular that two giants in other billiard disciplines agreed to take up the game especially for a challenge match. On September 22, 1924 Willie Hoppe, the world's Balkline champion (who later took up the game with a passion), and Ralph Greenleaf, the world's pocket billiards title holder, played a well-advertised, multiple day, 600 point match. William Frederick Hoppe, (b October 11, 1887, Cornwall on Hudson, New York, USA; d Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered Ralph Greenleaf (born 3 November 1899 in Monmouth Illinois, died 15 March 1950 was an American professional pool and Carom billiards player Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles Hoppe was the eventual winner with a final score turned in of 600-527. The game's decline in the U. S. came about in 1952 when Hoppe, then 51-time billiards champion, announced his retirement. [1][19][20][21]
Three-cushion billiards is a very difficult game. Averaging one point per inning is professional level play, and averaging 1. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles 5 to 2 is world class play. An average of one means that for at every turn at the table, a player makes 1 point and misses once, thus making a point on 50% of his or her shots. The high run at three-cushion billiards for many years was 25, set by the American Willie Hoppe in 1918 during an exhibition. William Frederick Hoppe, (b October 11, 1887, Cornwall on Hudson, New York, USA; d As of 2007, the high run record is 31 points, shared between Semih Saygıner from Turkey and Hugo Patiño who is originally from Colombia but resides in the US. Semih Saygıner (b November 12, 1964, in Adapazarı, Turkey) nicknamed Mr Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. [22] The best game at the standard 50 points in a tournament is 9 innings by the Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl in 2000 and 4 innings by the Korean Sang Lee in 1992 in an exhibition game. Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962) is a Swedish professional Carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Sang Chun Lee ( Korean: 이상천 b January 15, 1954 &ndash d [1] The highest tournament average is 2. 536 (345 caramboles) by Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands in 2002 at a tournament in Monaco. Dick Jaspers (born 23 July 1965 in Sint Willebrord Netherlands Raymond Ceulemans from Belgium has won an unmatchable 21 three-cushion billiards world-championships. Raymond Knight Ceulemans (born July 12, 1937 in Lier Belgium) is a Three-cushion billiards player and possibly the most dominant The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those [23]
Three-cushion billiards is the most popular carom billiards game played in the U. S. today, although overall pocket billiards is far more widespread. Three-cushion retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America. [1]
One of the most notable governing bodies of the sport is the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). The Union Mondiale de Billard ( French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole billiard games It had been staging world three-cushion championships since the late 1920s. [24] Decades later, the Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) competed with UMB, but faded in the late 1990s due to financial problems. The Billiards World Cup Association ( BWA) was a governing body for Carom billiards [25]
Artistic billiards
In Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty. Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a Carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles Each set shot has a maximum point value assigned for perfect execution, ranging from a 4-point maximum for lowest level difficulty shots, and climbing to an 11-point maximum for shots deemed highest in difficulty level. There is a total of 500 points available to a player. The governing body of the sport is the Confédération International de Billard Artistique (CIBA). [1][26]
Each shot in an artistic billiards match is played from a well-defined position (in some venues within an exacting two millimeter tolerance), and each shot must unfold in an established manner. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to Players are allowed three attempts at each shot. In general, the shots making up the game – even 4-point shots – require a high degree of skill, devoted practice and specialized knowledge to perform. [1][26]
World title competition first started in 1986 and required the use of ivory balls. Ivory is formed from Dentine and constitutes the bulk of the Teeth and Tusks of animals such as the Elephant, Hippopotamus, However, this requirement was dropped in 1990. The highest score ever achieved in world competition was 374, by the Frenchman Jean Reverchon in 1992, while the highest score in competition overall is 427 set by the Belgian Walter Bax on March 12 2006 [1]. Legal residents and citizens To be French according to the first article of the Constitution is to be a citizen of France regardless of one's origin race or religion ( The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those The game is played predominantly in western Europe, especially in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Western Europe at its most general meaning means 'all the countries in the West of Europe ' The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands [1][26]
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- ^ a b c Martin Škrášek (2000). What's Artistic Billiard?. Retrieved November 30, 2006
External links
- Union Mondiale de Billard — world tournament sanctioning body
- Archival Billiard Resource
- Animation showing the "rail nurse" with a description
- BiliardoWeb - The first Italian Community and e-magazine (in Italian)
- "Il Biliardo Universale", by Fabio Margutti - siteweb on the Margutti's system and theory of the multiple centers (in Italian)
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