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In reality, more often than not, your aim isn’t the problem – it’s that you didn’t deliver the cue in a perfectly straight line. Several players, including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Allen and Steve Davis, have claimed that there are too many tournaments in the season, causing burnout of players. [140] O'Sullivan played only a subset of tournaments in 2012, so he could spend more time with his children; as a result he ended the 2012–13 season ranked 19th in the world despite being the world champion. O'Sullivan played only one tournament in 2013, the World Championship, which he won. [141] He suggested that a "breakaway tour" with fewer events would be beneficial to the sport, but none was organised. [142] The number of ranking events on the World Snooker Tour has continued to increase, from eight in 2002-3, to 11 in 2012-13, and 15 in 2022-23. The highest competition in the amateur sport is the IBSF World Snooker Championship, [137] while the highest level of the senior sport is the World Seniors Championship. [136] On the women's tour, the leading tournament is the World Women's Snooker Championship. The reigning champion is Reanne Evans who has held the women's world title twelve times since first winning the championship in 2005. Evans has also participated on the World Snooker Tour and has taken part in the qualifying rounds of the main world championship on five occasions, reaching the second round in 2017. [138] The most prestigious amateur event in England is the English Amateur Championship; first held in 1916, this is the oldest snooker competition still being played in the world. [139] Criticism [ edit ] a b "Rebecca Kenna quits snooker league over 'men-only' rule". BBC News. 26 March 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019 . Retrieved 5 September 2019.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Official Rules of the Games of Snooker and English Billiards (PDF). Bristol, England, UK: World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 13, 2015 . Retrieved December 24, 2011. a b Fels, George (2000). Pool Simplified, Somewhat. Mineola, New York: Courier Dover Publications. pp.9, 88–89. ISBN 0486413683.Snooker signs five-year BBC deal". BBC Sport. 26 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 February 2006 . Retrieved 25 February 2007. Still, as a cheap aiming device that helps you understand your cue action and improve your aiming, it does an excellent job. Played in 1926 and 1927, the first World Snooker Championship—then known as the Professional Championship of Snooker—was won by Joe Davis. [23] [3] [24] A Women's Professional Snooker Championship (now the World Women's Snooker Championship) was created in 1934 for top female players. [25] [26] As a professional English billiards and snooker player himself, Davis raised the game from a recreational pastime to a professional sporting activity. [27] [28] Davis won all fifteen tournaments held until 1946, when he retired from the championships. [29] [30] However, snooker declined in popularity in the post-war era; the 1952 World Snooker Championship was contested by only two players and was replaced by the World Professional Match-play Championship, which was also discontinued in 1957. [23] [6] In an effort to boost popularity of snooker, Davis introduced a variation known as " snooker plus" in 1959, which added two extra colours, but this version of the game was short-lived. [31] A world championship for top amateur players, now known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship, was founded in 1963, [32] and the official world championship was revived on a challenge basis in 1964.

The baulk line is the white line you can see on the table when you look at overhead shots on TV, and is situated 31 inches from the top of a 6ft by 12ft table (the distance differs on tables of different sizes). The baulk line is also home to the D. Steve Davis won the World Championship six times in the 1980s. Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the World Championship seven times in the 21st century. a b Leider, Nicholas (2010). Pool and Billiards for Dummies. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 9780470565537 . Retrieved April 3, 2010.Women's Billiards. Association Formed to Control the Championships". Lancashire Evening Post. 1 October 1931. p.10 . Retrieved 21 August 2019– via The British Newspaper Archive. Green, Jonathon (1987). Dictionary of Jargon. London: Routledge. p. 112. ISBN 9780710099198 . Retrieved February 26, 2009. Chinese snooker n WWW Snooker: The 2003/2004 Season". snooker.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012 . Retrieved 16 September 2019. World Snooker Challenge Tour 2018/19". World Snooker. 7 February 2018. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020 . Retrieved 23 July 2021. Our fourth snooker aiming technique is perhaps a bit of a ‘cheat’ option and isn’t something you’ll be able to do during games.

Baxter, Trevor (26 January 1999). "Obituary: John Pulman". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019 . Retrieved 31 August 2012. a b c d e f Alciatore, David G. (January 2007). "Throw – Part IV: Inside/outside English" (PDF). Illustrated Principles. Billiards Digest. Chicago: Luby Publishing . Retrieved March 7, 2021– via Billiards.ColoState.edu.a b c Puddy, David. "Snooker for beginners". Snooker rules and refereeing. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019 . Retrieved 31 January 2019.