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Back in 2004, I downloaded and printed out a copy of "The Rules of Snooker" from www.ibsf.org
I cannot locate the particular page on that website but it can still be found using www.archive.org by looking for www.ibsf.org/rules/snooker3.php and clicking on the date Jan 01,2004
Tacked on to the end of Rule 14 Foul and a Miss is a strange rule numbered 14.1 dealing with a players options after 3 Foul and a Miss calls from a full snookered situation.
Does anybody know the story behind this rule? Was it ever used? When was it officially withdrawn? It seems to me that it would have had the effect of making the Foul and a Miss rule even harder to come to grips with.
To save you looking it up, here is the rule, copied and pasted:
14.1
When a Foul and a Miss has been called twice consecutively in a full snookered situation and the offending player has been requested to play again from the original position, he shall be warned by the Referee that if he is called a third time for a 'Foul and a Miss', the next player will have the following options:
(i) Request the offending player to play from where the balls have come to rest.
(ii) Play himself from where the balls have come to rest.
(iii) Play himself from in-hand with all balls remaining as where they have come to rest.
(a) When a Foul and a Miss has been called, the offending player must, in every attempt, demonstrate that he is making a genuine effort to strike the ball on. Failure to do so, the referee shall apply either Section 2 Definition 20 or Section 4 Rule 2 or Section 5 Rule 1 (a) (i) (ii) (iii).
I cannot locate the particular page on that website but it can still be found using www.archive.org by looking for www.ibsf.org/rules/snooker3.php and clicking on the date Jan 01,2004
Tacked on to the end of Rule 14 Foul and a Miss is a strange rule numbered 14.1 dealing with a players options after 3 Foul and a Miss calls from a full snookered situation.
Does anybody know the story behind this rule? Was it ever used? When was it officially withdrawn? It seems to me that it would have had the effect of making the Foul and a Miss rule even harder to come to grips with.
To save you looking it up, here is the rule, copied and pasted:
14.1
When a Foul and a Miss has been called twice consecutively in a full snookered situation and the offending player has been requested to play again from the original position, he shall be warned by the Referee that if he is called a third time for a 'Foul and a Miss', the next player will have the following options:
(i) Request the offending player to play from where the balls have come to rest.
(ii) Play himself from where the balls have come to rest.
(iii) Play himself from in-hand with all balls remaining as where they have come to rest.
(a) When a Foul and a Miss has been called, the offending player must, in every attempt, demonstrate that he is making a genuine effort to strike the ball on. Failure to do so, the referee shall apply either Section 2 Definition 20 or Section 4 Rule 2 or Section 5 Rule 1 (a) (i) (ii) (iii).
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