Snooker Plus
Snooker Plus is a variant of snooker that was introduced to the public for the first time on October 26, 1959 by ex-snooker world champion Joe Davis .
Snooker Plus is played according to the same rules as snooker, with the difference that there are two more colored balls on the table: an orange ball that is halfway between the blue ball and the pink ball and a purple ball that is the Distance between brown and blue halved. The orange ball scores eight points, the purple ball scores ten. In the end game on the colors, the order of the snooker remains the same, after the black ball orange and purple follow. Compared to snooker, the maximum break is no longer 147 points, but 210 (15 times red, 15 times purple and 45 points in the final).
According to Joe Davis, this should make the game more exciting and attractive for viewers. Snooker Plus could not prevail over snooker and was never played on a large scale.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Snooker Plus newspaper article in The Glasgow Herald, October 27, 1959. Retrieved April 17, 2012