Billiards - beautiful intellectual game, which has many varieties.

Russian billiards - a kind of world billiards, reflected the traits of our people, requires a player to a strain of physical and spiritual strength, skill, endurance and stamina. Russian billiards much "stricter" their foreign counterparts. Games at Russian billiards are 16 relatively large balls, 15 of which are numbered from first to fifteenth and sixteenth ball differs from them in special markings or color. Pockets in Russian billiards strict and require players to hit high accuracy. Sizes tables fluctuate quite a large range - from 6 to 12 feet.

However, the greatest recognition and popularity in world billiards today received three games: pool, snooker and carom.

Poole - American luzny billiards, characteristics of which are the small size of the table (from 4.5 to 9 feet), large enough pocket and 16 small colored balls that are played into the pockets of certain rules. Games pool is very dynamic, outwardly simple, but very spectacular. Party masters literally last minute, which corresponds to the commercial spirit of American billiards.

Poole began to spread around the world at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries rapidly, which contributed a lot of advertising a romantic way of life, the prize fund and the income of the most successful pulistov-pool players, and later - reaching the screen bright and exciting films about the masters of the pool. Ease of development of technology game of pool and multiplies the number of its fans, it can play almost everything - from small to large.

Snooker - English luzny billiards, which favored the UK and Commonwealth countries. Characteristics of snooker: large enough tables (from 6 to 12 feet), relatively large pockets and small colored balls. The game is on the complex rules 22 balls, of which 15 red and 7 different colors (different ranks). Without significant changes the rules of snooker were dozens of years, confirming the view of a healthy conservatism of the British. The game requires players to first-class technology, prudence and high intelligence. Steve Davis - King of snooker, in his thirty years, earning a year playing for a million dollars, so big prize for this type of billiards.

Carom - bezluzny billiards, are widely known in Europe, North Africa, South America, Japan and Indonesia. Bezluzny table of small size (5 to 10 feet) and on the table more often than 3 small ball, as a rule, two white and one red. Carom - this is a special attack, in which the cue ball first concerns a ball, and then making one, two or three sides, should touch another ball.

The game requires the highest technology, a sense of impact force of rotation, it captivates the complexity of the trajectory of the cue ball and originality of individual combinations. After each impact on karambolnom table there own special, almost unique position of balls for the solution of which requires remarkable fantasy. This is part of the charm of carom. According to Masters, is the most difficult game of billiards.

Of course, besides the above-mentioned four groups, in the billiard world, there is more than a dozen fairly common game: it's Italian chips, commonly, by the way, not only in Italy, and kaizen, and Caroline, different types of games tenpins on the desk, and others.