Three-cushion world championship 1966

21st three-cushion world championship 1966
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
Tournament details
Venue:	Casal de Cataluna, Buenos Aires
Opening:	October 22, 1965
Endgame:	October 29, 1965
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Enrique Navarra
3rd place:	Alfonso Gonzales
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,191 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,714 Alfonso Gonzales
Maximum series (HS):	13 Alfonso Gonzales 000
Venue on the map
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires
← 1965	1967 →

The three-cushion world championship in 1966 was the 21st tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from October 22 to 29, 1965 in Buenos Aires . It was the world championship for the 1965/66 season. So far, the only time that two three-cushion World Championships have taken place in one calendar year.

history

Raymond Ceulemans confidently secured the fourth three-cushion World Championship title in a row with 8 wins again. The level of the tournament wasn't very high. Only two Europeans took part in the tournament. Nevertheless, the event was very well attended. On the final day the hall had to be closed due to overcrowding.

mode

“Everyone against everyone” was played with 60 points.

Final round

Legend
Abbr.	meaning
Pt.	points scored
Recording	required recordings
ED	Single average
GD	General average
VGD	Relative general average
BMD	Best team average
BED	Best individual average
BSD	Best sentence average
BEVD	Best Individual Relative Average
HS	Maximum series
MP	Match points
PP	Lot of points
GUV	G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren
SV	Sentence ratio
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)
	Best GD of the tournament / round
	Best VGD of the tournament / round
	Best ED of the tournament / round
	Best BVGD of the tournament / round
	Best HS of the tournament / round
(It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Raymond Ceulemans	16: 0	480	403	1.191	1.428	10
2	Enrique Navarra	14: 2	460	457	1.006	1.153	10
3	Alfonso Gonzales	10: 6	440	501	0.878	1.714	13
4th	Kōya Ogata	8: 8	449	505	0.889	1,250	8th
5	Johann Scherz	8: 8	400	460	0.869	1.428	8th
6th	Galo Legarda	8: 8	431	580	0.743	0.952	8th
7th	Carlos Friedenthal	6:10	390	467	0.835	1.034	8th
8th	Alvaro Cabrera	1:15	327	532	0.614	0.526	5
9	Arnoldo Pinto	1:15	300	595	0.504	0.526	6th
Tournament average: 0.817

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 815 .