How was invented Billiard
Generally game with balls were probably the first invented by humanity. Billiard homeland is Asia: India or rather China. By a strange cast of the national character, the most important invention made by the Chinese, are rarely brought to perfection. So ‘Chinese billiards’ remains unpretentious child’s toy. But the Genoese merchants, together with silk, gunpowder and the compass brought to Europe the new game too. Compete with the Chinese on the authorship of the Billiard come from the British, who still in the early Middle Ages liked to urge several balls on firmly compacted earthen floor, trying to hold them through the gates. It was called ‘Pall-Mall’. (It seems, that the word ‘ Billiard ‘ comes from the English words ball and yeard. Germans at the same time on a long table with grooves where using batons to push the stone ball. This gamewas called ‘Balkespiel’. These are the roots of the game, which goes in very deep cultural layers of humanity. At the beginning of the XV-XVI century, the popularity of billiards was already so high that the great Shakespeare in one of his plays allows himself an anachronism, saying that Cleopatra had played billiards with his eunuch Mardyanom. And one of the historians of France shows that Carl IX in the famous St Bartholomew’s Night August 24 1572 playing at billiards, put the balls and the cue and start to shot at the fleeing Huguenots. King – Sun, Ludowik XVI, extremely liked to admiring his grace and elegance during a game of billiards. He was proud a lot of the superiority of his game over the others. Ludowik permanent partner was someone Chamillart. This player, who had the glory of the fittest, intentionally losed to the king, of course not always. Chamillart did career. From clerks in the beginning he passed in several hierarchical levels to become at last military minister. In Russia Billiards emerged thanks to Peter the Great. He met the game in Holland and on his return ordered to the same table “for his own amusement ‘. Billiards were placed in the waiting room. Soon all the courtiers got pool tables. Among the prominent Russian billiard players of the era of Catherine the Great was Mikhail Lomonosov. His partner in the game often was the notorious Count Grigory Orlov, also a great player. What billiards gives to the man as a sport? In addition, he develops the eyes, produces precision and coordination, quick response, resourcefulness. In fact on the table almost never repeats the same location of the balls.
Gradually, the player learns patience and coolness. Thus the billiard field is a practical manual of geometry and physics. It is necessary to know the physical properties of balls in the collision. This game is a pleasure for both partners, and the audience, hence there is also an aesthetic moment. Billiards – irreplaceable means of recreation. It relieves accumulated tension in the first few minutes. Billiards balances the emotions and produces a number of qualities required by a person in life. He teaches us to win. Billiards is available at any time of year. It is the center of communication of the family and friends of the family. Billiards is able to help in business negotiations, when the partners are going to rest at the game table.
