BILLIARDS

Billiards - amazing intellectual game like chess. The balls of billiards - the same as the chess pieces, with the only difference that they will "walk" as you want. And this requires some knowledge. No sport in our country does not have such a long - three hundred! - Stories like billiards, but there is no sport, whose history would be so dramatic, as in billiard. Having lived through the period of prohibition, stagnation and neglect, it is not just a revival, and is undergoing rapid growth.

It is safe to say that at the threshold of the XXI century billiards found its rightful place in Russia and received the deserved recognition as a sport. But probably not many people know about how to begin this wonderful old game. Not everyone knows and that pool was included in the first Olympics held before the BC.

Even for professional billiards - still a mystery. Perhaps that's why they were carried away and be carried away forever. This unique game, unfortunately, not very massive, but amazingly interesting phenomenon. And it is certainly an enviable future. In competitions and tournaments can take part by people of different age categories. Over the pool table is often possible to see professional athletes (of tennis players, swimmers, football players, wrestlers). For some, it's just a game or gambling, for others - a real sports life, for the third - and recreation, and entertainment.

Billiards - a great mystery, but who wants to know it needs patience and work. According to professionals, is one of the most difficult games - chess in motion. Externally, for an amateur all looks pretty simple, but you have to learn not just scoring balls, and count options (both for himself and for the opponent) to find the correct way out of situations that are almost never repeated, to think over tactics and strategy of each game. Reaching billiard vertices can each person. But not knowing the "nature" of the world, can not win, it would require some knowledge and skills.