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
Russian pyramid Russian pyramid Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiard (, , ) or simply billiards in Russia and Ukraine, is a pocket billiards game, played on a table similar to a snooker table with narrow pockets. It is popular across Eastern Europe as well as countries of the former Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc. A variant with colored balls modeled on those of pool is known as Russian pool. Another variant, , is popular in Finland. In Western countries, the game is known as pyramid billiards. Russian pyramid is considered to be one of the most difficult billiards games. There are several