Billar

Billard
Billiards is a precision sport that is practiced driving with a cue ball a variable number (formerly ivory), in a slate-topped table covered with cloth, surrounded bybands of elasticmaterial with or without pockets.

Rules
The game is based on the collisions of the ball among themselves and with the bands. The play begins pushing one of the balls with the cue, which carries at itsfront end attached a leather sole, responsible for transmitting the movement to the ball. This sole is coated every few runs with a slip powder (chalk).

Size
Width: 1, 22 cm
Large: 2, 44 cmHeight: 85 cm
Taco: 1, 60 cm
Size ball: 57,7 mm

Instruments.
They use long sticks called tacos. Can be wood or fiber, there is a rubber base that protects the support on the ground and the tip of amaterial that is special to hit balls. They use a special balls, talco for that will not slip out of hand, plus one chalk that is used in the cue tip, used to not fail in the shot. The TrianglePlayers.
In the game may be two or more players, more teams can participate in the game. That depending on the game and participants are on the table.

History
The beginnings of the billard datingback to ancient cultures such as Greece and Egypt, but in the fifteenth century Europe when you start taking the form of the game known today. The name apparently comes from the French word bille,translated by ball. There are two theories about its creation, the French school says that the game was created by Henry Devigne, a craftsman of the court of Louis XV, while the English tradition says itsrightful inventor was Bill Yar. In 1825 we celebrated the first official championship of billard in the UK, and in 1835 the Frenchman Gaspard Coriolis Guatave writes "Mathematical Theory of the poolgame" work that allows the discovery of the parabolic trajectories of attack is nothorizontal.

Duration.
That depends on the players and the game with being played, it may take several minutes or...