Quick Snooker

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Snooker is truly a great, intelligent game - it combines skill and strategy like no other billiard table game.
If you're not familiar with the game, do take the trouble to learn, You will not regret it.

Pool

The registered version includes 'British' pool - as played on coin-op tables in the UK.
It features a nicely animated set of stripes and spots. Here's my very quick summary of the rules.

* Player A breaks and generally attempts to pot one or more balls.
* Whichever ball player A pots he adopts that set (stripes or spots) - if he pots a ball from both sets he may choose either set
* Player A must now pot all of his balls in any pockets, in any order - he must always touch one of his own balls as the first impact in any shot, if he succeeds in potting a ball he takes another turn.
* If a player - fails to hit his own ball first, fails to hit a ball at all, hits the black first, or pots one of his opponent's balls (even indirectly) he incurs a foul entitling his opponent to a free shot.
* During a free shot, a player may strike any object ball first, and may even (if for example his opponent has a pocket covered) pot one of opponents ball's - without incurring a foul.
* The winning player is the first to pot the Black - having first potted all of their own balls.


9-ball

The registered version includes 9-ball, a game found mostly in the United States. The rules in QuickSnooker are not exactly standard, due to some limitations of computer simulations.
Here's my very quick summary of the rules we use.
# A game is played as a best of n 'frames' (or 'legs'), where n is an add number.Player A breaks and generally attempts to pot one or more balls.
# At the start of each frame the object balls are arrange in a diamond with the 9-ball at the centre and the 1-ball at the head. The player with the first shot may place the ball anywhere behind the balk line.
# The players take turns shooting, except that if a player legally sinks an object ball, they get another turn.
# There are two ways to win - by (legally) sinking the 9-ball, or by having your opponent foul with three shots in a row.
# Fouls are committed in the following ways:

* On every shot (including the break) the cue ball must first hit the lowest-numbered ball on the table. (If you aren't familiar with which colour represents which number, remember to check in the score panel to see what you must aim at.) Hitting any other ball first, or not hitting anything at all, is a foul.
* On the break, at least two object balls must hit cushions, or a ball must be sunk. Otherwise, it is a foul. (Note: this is one of the differences from 'real' 9-ball - then, at least four balls must hit the cushions.)
* On each subsequent shot, at least one ball (either an object ball or the cue ball) must hit a cushion, or an object ball must be potted - otherwise it is a foul.
* Sinking the cueball at any time is a foul.

System reqs:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista

size : 7 mb





Download

http://rapidshare.com/files/228338659/Quick_Snooker_Pro.rar