Non-Pool
Topic: Snooker Chase the Green

My good friend Stuart Rhodes is looking to relaunch this excellent game that used to be played quite extensively in snooker clubs before snooker itself became a big TV sport.

Stuart is a legend in the game of snooker, having owned several clubs himself. As a snooker mad businessman he helped promote the game in the early 70's, before it was big on TV. He was responsible for staging a legendary exhibition match between between Alex Higgins and Ray Reardon in Sheffield City Hall.

More recently Stuart has become interested in American Pool and keeps up to speed with our tour and our UK stars exploits around the world.

I think it's probably some of attractions of the pool game - the thinking involved, accurate positional play, the speed and fun of the game, as well as the gambling element - along with Stuart's life long obsession with Snooker that will be behind him wanting to relaunch Chase The Green.

For anyone who enjoys both Pool and Snooker I think you'll find Chase the Green a lot of fun and a nice alternative.

Thanks to Matt Myden there is a website available where you can find out the rules and there is even a tournament coming up with around £1000 prize money I believe. I'm definitely entering just to see how I get on.

Who else fancies entering it or fancies a game sometime?

Nice one Riggers, this had slipped my mind, here's the website...

www.snookerchasethegreen.com

Never heard ov it !!!
Care to explain how it works riggers

I will when I get time pal. Meantime read the rules on the website. You would be really good at this to be fair. The key is to score exactly 101 and since only the green scores you an odd number of points that's the key ball. The game has the enjoyment and speed of pool along with the skill of snooker.

Come and have a knock if you want pal

Come and have a knock if you want pal

I read about this post last night and was going down my local club anyway for a knockabout, but I decided to give this a go instead. I was absolutely engrossed by it - a game that in theory sounds very easy but negotiating the green into the right baulk pocket was more of a b*****d than I thought it would be! I had a situation last night with my friend (we only played short frames to 31 points) where I attempted a green-black cannon with my opponent on 23 points. I missed the cannon, didn't so much as think about leaving the black on (it was an easy cannon and I shouldn't have missed it, I won't lie) and my opopnent subsequently won the frame, but this is an indicator of the game requiring a lot more thought than I first gave it credit for.

Sadly I can understand why this game was left in the shadows when snooker turned professional - back in the late 70s and early 80s people wanted a laid back, methodical, perhaps beautiful and altogether elegant game. That is precisely what snooker is and indeed remains today. For that very reason, however, it's why people who are entirely new to snooker in this modern day and age are sadly put off by the sport. It is too long, too methodical and some people simply don't have time for it. It's why so many people play so many various codes of pool now - people find it quicker and more enjoyable.

Chase The Green is similar - perhaps a distant cousin of pool played on the big 12-foot. It requires thought, it has tension, yet still requires a decent level of snooker prowess. My first impressions of the game are excellent and I for one would love to be involved in a demonstration tournament of some form. As an 'alright at everything, brilliant at nothing' cuesport player, the mixes of various different codes fit my game very nicely. If like me you love all cuesports, I guarantee you'll feel at home with this game.

Anybody else tried this game yet?