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Snooker plus was a variant of snooker created by Joe Davis in 1959 with two additional colours, orange (8 points) and purple (10 points).The orange spot was midway between the pink and blue, while the purple spot was midway between the brown and blue.
With only six matches to be played, two per week, the tournament was completed in three weeks. The first prize was £400. The final edition, in late 1959, was also played at Burroughes Hall. It used the Snooker Plus rules, with three competitors playing 25-frame matches and was again completed in three weeks.
Other games have been designed with an increased number of object balls in play. One example is "snooker plus", which included two additional colours: an orange ball worth eight points positioned between pink and blue, and a purple ball worth ten points positioned between brown and blue, increasing the maximum possible break to 210. [210]
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The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
In 1959, Davis attempted to popularise a new version of the game called snooker plus, which had two extra colours, an orange and a purple. The 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament was contested using this variant. [112] According to Everton, "the public rejected the game for the gimmick it was." [113]
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John Joseph "Jackie" Rea was born on 6 April 1921 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, [1] and was the only child of Catherine and greyhound track manager Thomas. [2] He began playing snooker at the age of 9 in the billiards room of the pub his father managed in Dungannon, [3] but usually then played in boys' clubs until he was 21, as people under that age were not allowed in public bars. [2]