Indoor games and sports is captured and removed from the board. The object of the game is to trap (checkmate) the enemy king by putting it in a position where it cannot escape capture. Various indoor games, including billiards, snooker and pool, are played on a large, flat, cloth-covered table with six pockets. In these games, each of the two players tries to pot the balls (knock them into the pockets) by striking them with a cue-ball, which is hit with the tip of a stick called a cue. In "billiards", there are just three balls: a white cue-ball for each player and one
World Series of Snooker 2008/2009 two. Table Matches: Table Matches: World Series of Snooker 2008/2009 The World Series of Snooker was played for the first time in the 2008/2009 season. Although there was a previous incarnation of the event organised by Matchroom Sport, that ran in the 1987/88 season, and from 1990/91 until 1992/93. It was a series of five non-ranking tournaments spread over Europe, where top professional players performed against regional wildcard players. The series consisted of four tournaments plus a "Grand Final" for which the winner earned €50,000. The winner of each tournament received five points, the runner-up three and losing semi-finalists one