Taom Green Chalk is the classic version of premium chalks. No kicks or bad contacts. Does not mess the balls or the cloth. Lasts almost twice as long than any other product on the market. Used by several professional players on the snooker main tour. Handmade in Finland.

I bought version 2.0 in April 2018. I play about two evenings a week + competition on Saturdays and I started on my second piece of chalk last month. The past 18 months have been virtually kick free, whereas kicks were very noticeable with my old chalk. Rolling in reds very slowly around the black spot gives very reproducible results. As others have commented, after several hours of playing the table and the balls still look clean (my team mates also use TAOM 2.0). I have been playing snooker for over 20 years and I have not noticed an increase in miscues after switching to TAOM 2.0. I would definitely recommend this chalk (I have not tried version 1.0 and I have not yet tried the new soft version).

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One type of obstacle remained a feature of many tables, originally as a hazard and later as a target, in the form of pockets, or holes partly cut into the table bed and partly into the cushions, leading to the rise of pocket billiards, including "pool" games such as eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool, and one-pocket; Russian pyramid; snooker; English billiards; and others.

The games with regulated international professional competition, if not others, have been referred to as "sports" or "sporting" events, not simply "games", since 1893 at the latest.[6] Quite a variety of particular games (i.e., sets of rules and equipment) are the subject of present-day competition, including many of those already mentioned, with competition being especially broad in nine-ball, snooker, three-cushion, and eight-ball.

There are many sizes and styles of billiard tables. Generally, tables are rectangles twice as long as they are wide. Table sizes are typically referred to by the nominal length of their longer dimension. Full-size snooker tables are 12 feet (3.7 m) long. Carom billiards tables are typically 10 feet (3.0 m). Regulation pool tables are 9-foot (2.7 m), though pubs and other establishments catering to casual play will typically use 7-foot (2.1 m) tables which are often coin-operated, nicknamed bar boxes. Formerly, ten-foot pool tables were common, but such tables are now considered antiques.

Bar or tavern tables, which get a lot of play, use "slower", more durable cloth. The cloth used in upscale pool (and snooker) halls and home billiard rooms is "faster" (i.e., provides less friction, allowing the balls to roll farther across the table bed), and competition-quality pool cloth is made from 100% worsted wool. Snooker cloth traditionally has a nap (consistent fiber directionality) and balls behave differently when rolling against versus along with the nap.

Billiards games are mostly played with a stick known as a cue. A cue is usually either a one-piece tapered stick or a two-piece stick divided in the middle by a joint of metal or phenolic resin. High-quality cues are generally two pieces and are made of a hardwood, generally maple for billiards and ash for snooker.

For snooker, bridges are normally available in three forms, their use depending on how the player is hampered; the standard rest is a simple cross, the 'spider' has a raised arch around 12 cm with three grooves to rest the cue in and for the most awkward of shots, the 'giraffe' (or 'swan' in England) which has a raised arch much like the 'spider' but with a slender arm reaching out around 15 cm with the groove.

Chalk is applied to the tip of the cue stick, ideally before every shot, to increase the tip's friction coefficient so that when it impacts the cue ball on a non-center hit, no miscue (unintentional slippage between the cue tip and the struck ball) occurs. Chalk is an important element to make good shots in pool or snooker. Cue tip chalk is not actually the substance typically referred to as "chalk" (generally calcium carbonate), but any of several proprietary compounds, with a silicate base. It was around the time of the Industrial Revolution that newer compounds formed that provided better grip for the ball. This is when the English began to experiment with side spin or applying curl to the ball. This was shortly introduced to the American players and is how the term "putting English on the ball" came to be. "Chalk" may also refer to a cone of fine, white hand chalk; like talc (talcum powder) it can be used to reduce friction between the cue and bridge hand during shooting, for a smoother stroke. Some brands of hand chalk are made of compressed talc. (Tip chalk is not used for this purpose because it is abrasive, hand-staining and difficult to apply.) Many players prefer a slick pool glove over hand chalk or talc because of the messiness of these powders; buildup of particles on the cloth will affect ball behavior and necessitate more-frequent cloth cleaning.

The most globally popular of the large variety of pocket games are pool and snooker. A third, English billiards, has some features of carom billiards. English billiards used to be one of the two most-competitive cue sports along with the carom game balkline, at the turn of the 20th century and is still enjoyed today in Commonwealth countries. Another pocket game, Russian pyramid and its variants like kaisa are popular in the former Eastern bloc.

Snooker is a pocket billiards game originated by British officers stationed in India during the 19th century, based on earlier pool games such as black pool and life pool. The name of the game became generalized to also describe one of its prime strategies: to "snooker" the opposing player by causing that player to foul or leave an opening to be exploited.

In the United Kingdom, snooker is by far the most popular cue sport at the competitive level, and major national pastime along with association football and cricket. It is played in many Commonwealth countries as well, and in areas of Asia, becoming increasingly popular in China in particular. Snooker is uncommon in North America, where pool games such as eight-ball and nine-ball dominate, and Latin America and Continental Europe, where carom games dominate. The first World Snooker Championship was held in 1927, and it has been held annually since then with few exceptions. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) was established in 1968 to regulate the professional game, while the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) regulates the amateur games.

In 1885, John Roberts, the then British Billiards Champion, visited India and met with Chamberlain during a dinner with the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. After enquiring about the rules of snooker, Roberts decided he would introduce the game back in England. Although it took many years before the game became widely played, by the end of the 19th century the manufacturers of billiards equipment had realised the commercial potential of snooker.

1916 saw the first official snooker competition take place, which was the English Amateur Championships. The first important professional event took place in 1927 and was won by Joe Davis, the first snooker superstar. Davis won the Professional Snooker Championship (which later became the World Snooker Championship) for 15 consecutive years and was instrumental in helping to grow the popularity of the game. By the 1930s, snooker had overtaken billiards as the most popular cue sport in the UK.

Although a ban on tobacco advertising in sport during the 2000s initially reduced the number of events and sponsorship money, the World Snooker Tour has bounced back considerably since 2010, when sports promoter Barry Hearn acquired a controlling interest in snooker's commercial arm -World Snooker Limited.

A new product to our cue extension range, this model is showing more popularity since Sunny Akani Songsermsawad developed his new style of using a snooker rest and his cue for long shots. Sometimes it takes someone new to look at old `tried and trusted` coaching techniques and this new style of playing snooker shots with the snooker rest is now favoured by a large number of snooker players. This model is 31 inches closed and extends and extra 20 inches to give an extra 51 inches of reach. If you want the extension to fit inside your case please check the dimensions before buying. We can make them to a custom length if required for an extra cost. Please also check if buying for a cue you presently have so we can make sure the correct joint is fitted. Made in the U.K. If you use a rest and extension in the traditional way our BL16 will normally be suitable and is our most popular screw-on snooker cue extension. To see how Sunny uses his extension please follow this link below.

This score's going to be a bit of a fudge. I can see it now. The problem isn't the quality of the game - World Snooker Championship 2005 is easily the most comprehensive and well worked clack-'em-up I've played, and makes a number of significant gains over its forerunner, of which more in a bit - but rather the question of what sort of value to place on a snooker game in the first place. It's relaxing to watch the pros on the TV occasionally, and it can be top fun to play pool or snooker with the aid of a few jars of ale every now and then, but is it something that you'd spend 30 to actually play yourself on your television?

The rest of the review ought to be pretty easy. For starters, let's talk features. WSC2005, which is available on virtually any format you could want (with an excellent-looking PSP version called World Snooker Challenge due for that system's European launch, whenever that is), has exhibitions, championships, tour modes, trick shots, all manner of pool/billiards variants, coached matches to get your positioning skills in tune, custom tournaments, loads of real pro snooker players (finally getting away from the paper-plates-on-mannequin look of the last version, too), commentary from various personalities who you can mix up for any combination you like, believable ball physics, two cueing systems (including a very nice analogue-based system that works in a similar manner to Tiger Woods' analogue golf swing system), intuitive controls that allow you to compete very effectively, and, in the version reviewed here, Xbox Live multiplayer support for up to four players in doubles. 0852c4b9a8

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