Everything about Artistic Billiards totally explained
Artistic billiards, sometimes called
fantasy billiards or
fantaisie classique, is a
carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty. Each set shot has a maximum point value assigned for perfect execution, ranging from a 4-point maximum for lowest level difficulty shots, and climbing to an 11-point maximum for shots deemed highest in difficulty level. There is a total of 500 points available to a player, representing the combined value of a perfect score on all 76 shots, although not all games are played with the full shot catalogue. The governing body of the sport is the
Confédération International de Billard Artistique (CIBA).
Each shot in an artistic billiards match is played from a well-defined position (in some venues within an exacting two
millimeter tolerance), and each shot must unfold in an established manner. Players are allowed three attempts at each shot. In general, the shots making up the game – even 4-point shots – require a high degree of skill, devoted practice and specialized knowledge to perform. Such shots often require extremes in
shotmaking techniques that are not often employed in other games, such as,, precision multiple-rail, and combined with outlandish use of .
Players may use up to twenty separate
cues providing different performance functions. For example, performing massés may require a cue with a very large diameter terminus and a specialized, while jumping may require a short, with a flat (rather than rounded), very hard and also wider cue tip than a playing cue. Some shots may require the use of props such as a small pin laid precisely on the and around which the player is required to make the pass on a designated side. For the most part, top artistic billiard players
specialize in the game to the exclusion of all others.
World title competition first started in 1986 and required the use of
ivory balls. However, this requirement was dropped in 1990. The highest score ever achieved in world competition was 374, by the
Frenchman Jean Reverchon in 1992, while the highest score in competition overall is 427 set by the
Belgian Walter Bax in 2006
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). The game is played predominantly in
Western Europe, especially in France, Belgium and the
Netherlands. The game employs a specialized vocabulary, chiefly derived from
French words, encompassing many terms that have no analogues in other
cue sports disciplines. Some examples are
coup fouetté ("whip shot"; a type of force follow);
massé coulé (a massé shot with follow) and
piqué (describes either a massé shot with no english, or a shot in which the cue stick is steeply angled, but not held quite as vertical as it's in full massé).
Artistic pool
Artistic pool trick shot competitions on
pocket billiards tables, inspired by artistic billiards, began in 1993 in the US at an amateur level and in 2000 professionally and internationally, featuring fifty-six pre-set shots to attempt..
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