Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[snookersfun]

3-Alex Higgins????

[chasmmi]

Not alex. but keep trying.

you are so close. (maybe)

[snookersfun]

you don't mean Higginson???

[chasmmi]

No.

But Davis got eighty and you got the rest. Put it together with the last line of your thinking in post 2165 and you are there.

[snookersfun]

Jimmy White!!

[chasmmi]

There we go! Huzzah.

Well done that (wo)man

[April madness]

chasmmi, can you explain what's got 80 to do with Jimmy? I can understand the runner up thing

thanks

[chasmmi]

Haiti - Forerunner - Up

Eighty-four runner up

[snookersfun]

There we go! Huzzah.

Well done that (wo)man

Hurray! That only took bl00dy ages... great fun though!

[April madness]

Haiti - Forerunner - Up

Eighty-four runner up

thanks Chasmmi didn't notice that fore

very well done snookersfun!

[davis_greatest]

Congratulations snookersfun again! Well done!

So here is the scoreboard after round 165:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 26½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . davis_greatest
..3 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..5 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . 12½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..7 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..8 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . chassmi
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . The Statman
10 . . . . . . . . . . 6½. . . . . . . Cyril
11 . . . . . . . . . . 5½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
12 . . . . . . . . . . 4½. . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . rambon
14 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . hegeland
15 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . JPK123
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Valderie
18 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
19 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April Madness
20 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
21 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
22 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
23 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
24 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . pat39
25 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . JoanneT63
26 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . In-off
27 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
28 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Ronnieisthebest
29 . . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . abextra

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX

The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England, 1.03a.m., Tuesday 6 May 2008

Stephen Hendry 17 - 17 Steve Davis

“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The final frame. Steve Davis to break.”

Davis’s break off leaves a long red on. Hendry, seeing no safety shot enabling return to baulk, takes the pot on. In it goes, and he begins what increasingly looks like it will be a frame- and championship-winning break!

By the time that the Scot has potted the first 10 reds with colours, few of the 984 live spectators, the 23 million watching on UK television or the 100 million watching worldwide expect Davis to return to the table. But when Hendry badly misjudges his attempted pot of the 11th red, the 50-year old Englishman rises from his seat. Davis does not need to look again at the scoreboard, but does so to make sure. He is 66 points behind. There are 5 reds remaining on the table! It would be an extremely difficult clearance, even under practice conditions, but this match, in fact this tournament, is not over yet!

Davis looks unfazed. His immaculate technique and positional play serve him faithfully at this hour of his greatest challenge. Each time he makes sure to take blacks after the reds have been potted.

Finally, he is faced with the 15th red, the safest one of all, on the baulk cushion. He has managed to get the cue ball near the baulk cushion, but it is tight on the side cushion and almost straight on the red. It will be impossible this time for him to get any possible position on the black, even if he manages to pot that last, very tough red.

He takes a long look. He sees disappointedly that even if he were to pot the red, he would not be able to have any sort of shot on the pink either. He could play position for a baulk colour, but looking at the scoreboard just confirms to him what he knew, of course, already: that if he did so, he would be left requiring a snooker!

Davis has not won more major titles than anyone else in the sport without learning a thing or two about how to play the game. He pots the red and – it turns out – pots the black twice more during the frame without Hendry getting back to the table.

Frame score: Stephen Hendry 17 - 18 Steve Davis
World Titles: Stephen Hendry 7 - 7 Steve Davis

The rivalry will be settled next year. But what happened in that last frame?

[dantuck_7]

A long double on the black after 15th red and then clears the colours??!

[davis_greatest]

A long double on the black after 15th red and then clears the colours??!

No - impossible to get any possible position on the black after that 15th red -that includes position for taking on a double!

[davis_greatest]

I have just edited the question slightly to put an additional clue in there!

[dantuck_7]

He takes a long look.
He sees disappointedly that even if he were to pot the red, he would not be able to have any sort of shot on the pink either

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I still reckon a cross double on the black might have been on! My only other idea is that he doubles the pink after the 15th red which contradicts the text above. The frame would then end up 66-66 and Davis wins the toss and doubles the black on the respot (as I did a few weeks ago - lol).