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- Balkline_and_straight_rail abstract "Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or 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 precursor 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 surprising 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.".
- Balkline_and_straight_rail thumbnail Michael_Phelan's_Billiard_Saloon.jpg?width=300.
- Balkline_and_straight_rail wikiPageExternalLink chuck.htm.
- Balkline_and_straight_rail wikiPageExternalLink rail.htm.
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- Balkline_and_straight_rail subject Category:Carom_billiards.
- Balkline_and_straight_rail comment "Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or 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.".
- Balkline_and_straight_rail label "Balkline and straight rail".
- Balkline_and_straight_rail label "Kaderspel".
- Balkline_and_straight_rail label "Mesa para los cuadros 71/2 y 71/1".
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- Balkline_and_straight_rail sameAs Kaderspel.
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- Balkline_and_straight_rail sameAs Q4851143.
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- Balkline_and_straight_rail wasDerivedFrom Balkline_and_straight_rail?oldid=597960561.
- Balkline_and_straight_rail depiction Michael_Phelan's_Billiard_Saloon.jpg.
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