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As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes, Computational Pool (billiards), Go, and Shogi.
Seven-ball, a pool (pocket billiards) game played with seven object balls, of which the 7-ball (see above) is the game-winning ball
Bar billiards in its current form started in the UK in the 1930s when an Englishman David Gill saw Billiard Russe being played in Belgium and persuaded the Jelkes company of Holloway Road in London to make a similar table.
After the team's 1887 postseason loss, during which the team was criticized for its recreational activities, his contract was sold to Brooklyn by team owner Chris von der Ahe, who largely blamed Caruthers, an expert billiards and poker player, for the failure.
Alex Pagulayan, the 2004 world champion in billiards hails from San Juan, a remote barrio of Cabagan.
The X-Men, playing billiards, notice a peace conference when Apocalypse and his Horsemen attack.
Dani Sánchez (born 1974), Spanish three-cushion billiards player
The Baltimore Sun of December 28, 1899, said that at the McGraw-Robinson bowling, billiards and pool hall the night before, the facility's manager had introduced duckpins.
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One possible origin is that duckpin bowling began in Baltimore around 1900, at a bowling, billiards and pool hall owned by future baseball Hall of Famers John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson, both of the then Baltimore Orioles.
Edward W. Gardner (1867–1932), American balkline and straight rail billiards champion
In 1905, he suffered a seizure and died while playing billiards at the United Service Club.
Goriziana a.k.a. nine-pin billiards or nine-pins, a more complicated derivative of five-pin billiards
Dick Jaspers (born 1965), a Dutch professional carom billiards player
One of his most celebrated works entitled La partie de billard sous Louis XV (A Game of Billiards under Louis XV), 1855, oil on canvas, 75 x 96 cm, can be seen at In Flanders Fields Museum.
In his first pro event, the 1994 Super Billiards Expo in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, he finished third, knocked out by the ultimate winner, dominant pro Mike Sigel with a score of 9 to 8.
The most important Patriots, such as Wybo Fijnje, H. W. Daendels, Adam Gerard Mappa and Valckenaer lived temporarily in a castle in Watten and formed a kind of commune, that jointly bought a billiards set, restored the rooms and grew its own vegetables.
John G. Horgan (1871–1921), champion professional pocket billiards (pool) player
Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg II (1865–1917), American billiards champion known as the "father of amateur billiards"
--> At the time of her 2002 induction into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, she held over 50 titles, and over the course of her career was recognized five times as "Player of the Year" by Pool & Billiards Magazine and Billiards Digest.
Maurice Daly (billiards player), 19th-century American world champion at carom billiards, see Balkline and straight rail
Walter Lindrum, a prodigious billiards player, has a distinctive tombstone in the shape of a billiard table.
The complex also contains a Regal Cinemas multiplex and IMAX theater, bowling alley, 25-table billiards hall, electric go-kart track, a glow in the dark miniature golf course, an arcade with over 300 games and rides, a Marriott Residence Inn, a fitness center, EastWest Karate Jujitsu, an ice cream cafe, a Modell's store, and a Stop & Shop Supermarket.
The O'Sheas initially achieved notability for their floral carvings and grotesqueries on buildings in Dublin, in particular at Trinity College and at the Kildare Street Club, including the famous window piece showing the club members as monkeys playing billiards.
Bowling stars Paeng Nepomuceno and RJ Bautista won the gold in Doubles and Billiards Francisco Bustamante and Antonio Lining won the 9-Pool Doubles.
Although he was a good midfielder (in 1958 he was discovered by the club K. Beerschot V.A.C. but a transfer was never made) he stopped playing football and began to concentrate on billiards.
It possesses an Electronic library with 1820 CD-ROMs and 820 video lectures, sports facilities, stadiums, courts, gymnasium, swimming pool, golf, and billiards, and language Lab, Management Information System.
Pelinga is represented by (and in turn represents, as co-founder and Western & International Executive Manager) the booking agent Billiards Superstars Promotions, who also represent Paul Gerni, Allison Fisher, Mike Massey, Ewa Laurance and other top pool pros.
He also represented the Metropolitan Police at billiards and snooker and was a referee and judge for the Amateur Boxing Association.
Grout loved billiards, and met champion Indian billiards player Wilson Jones in Kolkata in 1960; the test team cheered Wilson in the World Amateur Billiards Championship, which was being held at the same time as the test.
Warren Kiamco, 38, defeated Efren Reyes, 11-6, and won P 400,000 top cash prize in the First Senate President Manny Villar Cup Billiards Tournament on May 10, 2008 at the Sports Center of StarMall Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
Wilcox Hall provided a permanent facility for the Woodrow Wilson Society with a dining room, library, billiards area, lounges for reading and recreation, and rooms for various social activities.
Also that year, an Adelaide newspaper quoted Australian champion Walter Lindrum, one of the world's top billiards players, as saying that women should be able to be competitive with men at the sport.
WPA World Nine-ball Championship, also known as the "World Pool Championship" for promotional purposes, an international, professional pocket billiards (pool) tournament in the game of nine-ball, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association and often sponsored by Matchroom Sport
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WPA World Eight-ball Championship, an international, professional pocket billiards (pool) tournament in the game of eight-ball, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association