Snooker

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Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the later half of the 19th century. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth, or baize, with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue and 22 coloured balls, players must strike the white ball (or "cue ball") to pot the remaining balls in the correct sequence, accumulating points for each pot. An individual game, or frame, is won by the player scoring the most points. A match is won when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. Snooker gained its own identity in 1884 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain,while stationed in Ooty, devised a set of rules that combined pyramid and life pool.The word "snooker" was a long-used military term used to describe inexperienced or first-year personnel. The game grew in po[CENSORED]rity in the United Kingdom, and the Billiards Association and Control Club was formed in 1919. It is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927, with Joe Davis becoming a key figure in the early growth of the sport winning the championship fifteen times from 1927 to 1946. The "modern era" began in 1969 after the BBC commissioned the snooker television show Pot Black and later began to air the World Championship in 1978, leading to the sport's new peak in po[CENSORED]rity. Ray Reardon dominated the game in the 1970s, Steve Davis in the 1980s, and Stephen Hendry in the 1990s. Since 2000, Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the most world titles, winning 5. Top professional players now compete regularly around the world and earn millions of pounds.The sport has become increasingly po[CENSORED]r in China.The origin of snooker dates back to the latter half of the 19th century. In the 1870s, billiards was a po[CENSORED]r activity amongst British Army officers stationed in India and several variations of the game were devised during this time. One such variation originated at the officers' mess of the 11th Devonshire Regiment in 1875,which combined the rules of two pocket billiards games, pyramid and life pool. The former was played with fifteen red balls and one black positioned in a triangle, while the latter involved the potting of designated coloured balls.The game developed its own identity in 1884 when its first set of rules was finalised by Sir Neville Chamberlain, an English officer who helped develop and po[CENSORED]rise the game at Stone House in Ooty on a table built by Burroughes & Watts that was brought over by boat.The word "snooker" was a slang term for first-year cadets and inexperienced military personnel, but Chamberlain would often use it to describe the inept performance of one of his fellow officers at the table.In 1887, snooker was given its first definite reference in England in a copy of Sporting Life which caused a growth in po[CENSORED]rity.Chamberlain came out as the game's inventor in a letter to The Field published on 19 March 1938, 63 years after the fact.

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