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Blackball (pool) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Blackball (pool)
Blackball (sometimes written black ball or black-ball) is a pool (pocket billiards) game that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Malta, South Africa, Australia, and some other countries. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool". The game is played with sixteen balls (a and fifteen usually unnumbered ) on a small (6 ft x 3 ft or 7 ft x 4 ft) pool table with six . Blackball is an internationally standardised variation of the popular bar and club game eight-ball pool (a.k.a. 8-ball pool or eightball pool), closely related to the originally American and now professionally internationalised game eight-ball. The two main sets of playing rules are those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA, the International Olympic Committee-recognised governing body of pool) and its affiliate the European Blackball Association (EBA), known as "blackball rules", and the older code of the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF), often referred to as "world rules". ==History== Eight-ball pool (and thus its standardised form blackball), like international-style eight-ball, is derived from an earlier game invented around 1900 and first popularised in 1925 under the name ''B.B.C. Co. Pool'' by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Like blackball and eight-ball pool today, this forerunner game was played with seven and seven , unnumbered (in contrast to the international-style numbered and , sometimes called kelly pool or American-style balls in the UK), a (numbered "8" or unnumbered), and the white . The game had relatively simple rules compared to the modern game.
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