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101 Tips To Improve Your Game. By George Fels. Billiard Digest. February 1991

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Exploring Positive Impact of Pursuing Snooker on Young Adults. By Charchit Nim and Abhijit Deshpande. 2020

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Focus, Speed and Continuity in Precision. By Omer Chaudhry. 2026

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Rack ’Em! Une bille rouge, une bille de couleur. English and-et Français. By-Par Patricia Elliot. Canadian magazine. April 1998

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Beating Tactical Snooker. By Omer Chaudhry. 2026

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Snooker and the Arc of Intent. By Omer Chaudhry. 2026

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Snooker and the Shape of Errors. By Omer Chaudhry. 2026

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Is Billiards considered a sport? By Mohammed Abou Elmagd. 2017

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O Snooker e a Matemática - uma combinação vencedora. Helena Sousa Melo. Correto dos Açores, 11 de Julho de 2013

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Enhancing Snooker Player Development in China. A Comprehensive Analysis of Training System and Competition Setup. By Zehao Tuo. 2024

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Henry Upton Alcock and Billiard Tables in the Nineteenth Century. By John Hawkins. 1996

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Snooker Robot Player. 20 years on. By Kenneth H.L. Ho, Trevor Martin, Jim Baldwin. 2007

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The Board of Green Cloth. By Frederick Adye. The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. London Vol. 5, Iss. 28, November 1897

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Artificial Billiard Balls. By Tim Palucka. MRS Bulletin. Volume 30. August 2005

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Best billiard ball in the nineteenth century. Composite materials made of celluloid and bone as substitutes for ivory. By Artur Neves, Robert Friedel, Maria J. Melo, Maria Elvira Callapez, Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam. 2023

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Analysis and Explanation of Snooker's Sports Culture and Communication Mode. Yiting Fan. 2018

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The Annals of Billiards. The Cornhill magazine ser.2 v.7. 1886

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Modern Billiards. Bailys Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. 1886

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Masters Almanac. By Matt Tresco. 6 January 2025

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Tom Reece's Record Break. By Peter Ainsworth. 24 November 2018

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Coriolis was brilliant ... but he didn’t have a high-speed camera. By David Alciatore, PhD. 24 September 2007

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History and Rules for Medieval Ground and Table Billiards. By THL Aurddeilen-ap-Robet. Original Published October 2013. Updated March 2017

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Motions of a Billiard ball After a cue Stroke. By Hyeong-Chan Kim. 21 January 2022

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Pool and Billiards Physics Principles by Coriolis and Others. By David G. Alciatore, PhD, PE. 8 November 2014

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A History of Billiards and Snooker. In particular of the QBSA Inc and its forerunners. 1788-1949.

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Amateur Physics for the Amateur Pool Player. Third Edition. By Ron Shepard. 7 January 2000

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Historia - os jogos do Bilhar e o nascimento do Snooker. Paulo Dirceu Dias. 2012. (Portuguese Brazilian)

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Historia - os jogos do Bilhar e o nascimento do Snooker. Paulo Dirceu Dias. 2012. (English. Translated with DeepL.com)

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Geometry and Integrable Billiards. Vladimir Dragovic. 20 December 2008

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Mathematical Billiards, Flat Surfaces and Dynamics. By Corinna Ulcigrai. 18 December 2010

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Geometry and Billiards. By Serge Tabachnikov. 20 July 2005

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A Mathematical Analysis of Billiards Games. By Chun-Hao Teng. April 29, 2008

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Gaspard-Gustave De Coriolis (1792-1843). Un Mathématicien, Théoricien De La Mécanique Appliquée. Par Alexandre Moatti (In French). 3 octobre 2011

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Probabilities at the Three-Ball Game of Billiards. By Benjamin Peirce. 1877

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