The origin of snooker dates back to the second half of the 19th century. The popularity of snooker has led to the creation of many variations based on the standard game, but using different rules or equipment, for example six-red snooker, the short-lived " snooker plus", and the more recent Snooker Shoot Out version. Competitive snooker is also available to non-professional players, including seniors and people with disabilities.
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Although the main professional tour is open to females, there is a separate amateur women's tour organised by World Women's Snooker. The three main professional tournaments-the World Championship, the UK Championship, and the Masters-together make up the Triple Crown Series, considered by many players to be the most highly valued titles. Top professional players compete in regular tournaments around the world, earning millions of pounds on the World Snooker Tour, a circuit of international events featuring competitors of many different nationalities. Since 2000, Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the most world titles.
Key figures in the game were Ray Reardon in the 1970s, Steve Davis in the 1980s, and Stephen Hendry in the 1990s, each winning the World Championship on multiple occasions.
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The "modern era" of snooker began in 1969 after the broadcaster BBC commissioned the television series Pot Black, later airing daily coverage of the World Championship which was first televised in 1978. Joe Davis, a key figure and pioneer in the early growth of the sport, won fifteen successive world championships between 19. The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927. As a professional sport, snooker is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The standard rules of the game were first established in 1919 when the Billiards Association and Control Club was formed. In the early 20th century, snooker was predominantly played in the United Kingdom where it was considered a "gentleman's sport" until the early 1960s, before growing in popularity as a national pastime and eventually spreading overseas. The word snooker was a well-established derogatory term used to describe inexperienced or first-year military personnel. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ootacamund, Madras, and Jubbulpore, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids.
A snooker match ends with one of the players having won a predetermined number of frames. An individual frame of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white cue ball to pot the other twenty-one snooker balls in the correct sequence, accumulating points for each pot. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈ s n uː k ər/, US: / ˈ s n ʊ k ər/) is a cue sport that was first played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century. Snooker table, snooker balls, cue stick, triangle, chalk, rests, scoreboard Four-time world champion Mark Selby playing at a practice table during the 2012 Masters tournament
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