Teach Yourself Snooker

Contents: Preface. 1. History of snooker. 2. Skills and techniques of snooker : double; safety tactics; significance of practice in snooker. 3. Rules of snooker.

"Snooker is one of the widely played indoor game in the world, however, it produces a smaller percentage of good players than most others. The actual method of play is very easily grasped. Snooker is played on a billiards table with twenty-two balls, comprising fifteen reds and six colours, namely, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black and a white ball. The latter is the only ball that can be struck with the cue.

Teach Yourself Snooker discusses all the aspects of snooker viz., skills, techniques, tactics, rules with latest dimensions and measurements. This book will prove very useful to the aspirants learners to learn the skills, tactics and technique of snooker. To better understand each skills and tactics some illustrations are given.

Hopefully, the present book will be useful for the new aspirants learners, prospective coaches, teachers and students of sports sciences etc." (jacket)