![]() ![]() What’s the difference between Billiards and Snooker? Today we witness championships and broadcasted games of Snooker, observed by more than 450 million people worldwide. Today, Snooker conquered over 90 countries and over 120 million hearts of people all around the world. And they decided to stick with that name.Īfter some time they perfected the game and stated the rules and little details that differed Snookers from Pool and other Billiards umbrella games. In the article by Compton Mackenzie, it seems like a young lieutenant Chamberlain jokingly referred to players as Snookers. Back then, Military Academy called rookie cadets Snookers. There’s a fun history behind the game’s name. They decided to substitute multiple-colored balls with red balls and one black ball. Compton Mackenzie, Author, and essayist states in one of his articles that in 1875 officers in the city of Jabalpur experimented with the balls of the classic black pool. Snooker was introduced a bit later than Billiards. ![]() Thus resulting Indian people to give the world the game of Snooker. He experimented with the classic game of black pool and gifted us the game of Snooker.Ī strong influence of the British nation in India resulted in giving birth to a cricket-crazy nation. Snooker is a brainchild of a young British lieutenant Neville Chamberlain. Imagine how many people would’ve thought to take it and create something more. Imagine a game that was widespread throughout the whole world. People from different countries were adopting it, and even creating their new rules and techniques. By this time the game of Billiards was already traveling through the world. But we can surely say that India gifted the world a game of snooker. It’s hard to trace the roots of such game with a large history. Later on, people improved the equipment, changed the way cue sticks looked and worked, and continued enjoying Billiards. Nowadays the name Billiards act as an umbrella term for Snooker, billiards and pool games. Originally, this game was invented somewhere in 15th-century Europe. They modified the game and created Billiards. People decided to move the game indoors, on a wooden table covered with cloth to simulate the grass. The billiards game came from an old game similar to croquet. That’s how games, stories, and traditions develop. Today’s bananas evolved and transformed into something more edible and attractive. Have you ever seen a wild banana or a watermelon? They differ from the fruits we eat every day. That’s how long and rich its history goes. If you were to live in 1869, then you might’ve tasted a blown-up billiards ball. Did you know that taking a perfect shot in Billiards could cause a ball to explode and cause damage? There was a time when people made billiards balls out of combustible matter – celluloid, an early plastic. ![]()
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