File:Billiards-q75-1426x1200. jpg Inset from School of Recreation, 1710. "We perceive from the engraving of the Billiards of the seventtenth [sic] century, that the game was altogether different from what it is now.

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  • File:Billiards-q75-1426x1200. jpg Inset from School of Recreation, 1710. "We perceive from the engraving of the Billiards of the seventtenth [sic] century, that the game was altogether different from what it is now. " Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two cue balls and a third, red object ball, on a cloth-covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, pocketless table that is divided by balklines on the cloth into marked regions called balk spaces. Such balk spaces define areas of the table surface in which a player may only score up to a threshold number of points while the object balls are within that region. The balkline games developed to make the game, straight rail, more difficult to play and less tedious for spectators to view in light of extraordinary skill developments which allowed top players to score a seemingly endless series of points with the balls barely moving in a confined area of the table playing area. Straight rail, unlike the balkline games, had no balk space restrictions, although one was later added. The object of the game is simple: one point, called a "count", is scored each time a player's cue ball makes contact with both object balls (the second cue ball and the third ball) on a single stroke. A win is achieved by reaching an agreed upon number of counts. Carom billiards players of the modern era may find it astounding that balkline ever became necessary given the considerable difficulty of straight rail. Nevertheless, according to Mike Shamos, curator of the U.S. Billiard Archive, "the skill of dedicated players [of straight rail] was so great that they could essentially score at will. " The story of straight rail and of the balkline games are thoroughly intertwined and encompass a long and rich history, characterized by an astounding series of back and forth developments, akin to a billiards evolutionary arms race, where new rules would be implemented to make the game more difficult and to decrease high runs to keep spectators interested, countered by new shot inventions and skills interdicting each new rule.
  • Los cuadritos pequeños exigen el mismo requisito que los grandes para carambolear dentro de ellos. Se introdujeron para evitar una posición llamada ancla (bolas contrarias a ambos lados de la línea y apoyándose en la banda)que permitía series "legales" larguísimas.
  • Het kaderspel is een spelsoort van het carambolebiljart die is bedacht om het maken van grote series met korte, voor het publiek weinig spectaculaire stoten te bemoeilijken. Daartoe wordt langs elke band een evenwijdige lijn getrokken zodat in de hoeken vierkante kaders en langs de randen langwerpige kaders ontstaan. Als beide aanspeelballen binnen de lijn liggen, dan moet, afhankelijk van de spelsoort, bij de eerste, tweede of derde carambole één van die ballen het vak verlaten.
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  • Balk space
  • Balklines
  • Bed
  • Cloth
  • Cue ball
  • Frozen
  • Inning
  • Long rail
  • Object ball
  • Speed control
  • Stroke
  • balk spaces
  • balklines
  • barely moving
  • cloth
  • cue balls
  • frozen
  • inning
  • long rails
  • object ball
  • object balls
  • pocket
  • stroke
  • table surface
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  • File:Billiards-q75-1426x1200. jpg Inset from School of Recreation, 1710. "We perceive from the engraving of the Billiards of the seventtenth [sic] century, that the game was altogether different from what it is now.
  • Los cuadritos pequeños exigen el mismo requisito que los grandes para carambolear dentro de ellos. Se introdujeron para evitar una posición llamada ancla (bolas contrarias a ambos lados de la línea y apoyándose en la banda)que permitía series "legales" larguísimas.
  • Het kaderspel is een spelsoort van het carambolebiljart die is bedacht om het maken van grote series met korte, voor het publiek weinig spectaculaire stoten te bemoeilijken. Daartoe wordt langs elke band een evenwijdige lijn getrokken zodat in de hoeken vierkante kaders en langs de randen langwerpige kaders ontstaan. Als beide aanspeelballen binnen de lijn liggen, dan moet, afhankelijk van de spelsoort, bij de eerste, tweede of derde carambole één van die ballen het vak verlaten.
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  • Balkline and straight rail
  • Mesa para los cuadros 71/2 y 71/1
  • Kaderspel
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