Snooker & Billiards: Technique, Tactics, Training'Crowood Sports Guides' provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better player whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques and tactics or reviewing the fundamentals of your game. illustrated |
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Snooker and Billiards: Skills - Tactics - Techniques - Second Edition Clive Everton Limited preview - 2014 |
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Alex Higgins attempt basic baulk cushion baulk line billiards black spot blue Breakbuilding bridge bridge-hand bring the red centre spot chalk CHAPTER check side Cliff Thorburn colour corner pocket cue action Dennis Taylor difficult double drop cannon fingers finish foul shot frame Fred Davis free ball green grip in-off red intervening ball Jimmy White Joe Davis John Parrott John Virgo KEY POINT leave the cue-ball middle pocket miss object-white opponent place the cue-ball play the shot positional play pottable potting the red practice Ray Reardon referee rest Rex Williams right-hand side RULES CHECK safety shot scoring screw back screw shots shot is played shown in Fig shows side cushion side-spin slightly snooker spin stance STAR TIP Stephen Hendry Steve Davis stun Terry Griffiths three-quarter ball top cushion top players top pocket touching tournament type of shot widen the angle yellow