Assertion: cue ball | /r/CapableOf | contact an object ball
Facets:
value: on a chalk mark
type: LOCATION
value: with draw
type: OTHER
value: behind the head string
type: LOCATION
value: at the proper aiming contact point
type: MANNER
value: at the start of the shot
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: If no ball is pocketed on a shot, the cue ball must contact an object ball, and after that contact at least one ball (cue ball or any object ball) must be driven to a rail, or the shot is a foul.
text: Once the cue ball contacts the object ball, the friction will allow the draw to take.
text: However, if the cue ball is touching an object ball at the start of the shot, it is legal to shoot towards or partly into that ball (provided it is a legal target within the rules of the game) and if the object ball is moved by such a shot, it is considered to have been contacted by the cue ball.
text: If the cue ball and object ball contact is not dead-on but still very full, the result will often be a "stun" shot , where the cue ball departs the object ball in the expected direction but travels only a short distance.
text: Stun shot A shot where the cue ball has no topspin or backspin on it when it impacts an object ball, and "stuns" out along the tangent line.
text: A common aiming method in which a phantom ball is imagined frozen to the object ball at the point where an imaginary line drawn between their centers is aimed at the desired target; the cue ball may then be shot at the center of the "ghost" ball and, ideally, impact the object ball at the proper aiming contact point.
text: Striking left or right of centre causes the cue-ball to take a curved path both before and after it contacts the object-ball.
text: It is most common in the game of snooker, and is illegal in many pool games, in which on every shot a ball must either be pocketed, or some ball must contact a cushion after the cue ball has contacted an object ball.
text: Players may play safe to the same rail as many times as they wish, as long as either the cue ball or at least one object ball is driven to a cushion after the cue ball contacts an object ball.
text: After the cue ball contacts an object ball, the continuing path of the cue ball follows the tangent line.
text: If a cue ball is sliding, not rolling, at the time it contacts an object ball at an angle (i.e. on a cut shot , not a center-to-center impact), the cue ball will travel in a line tangential to the point of impact between both balls – the tangent line .
text: A legal shot involves the cue ball contacting an object ball, and driving it to a cushion , or the cue ball hitting a cushion after contact, or pocketing an object ball
text: Follow shot A shot in which the cue ball is struck above its equator with sufficient draw to cause the cue ball to travel forward after it contacts an object ball.
text: The cue ball contacts an object ball with draw (backspin) and pockets another.
text: If a cue ball is rolling when it contacts an object ball, (topspin) or spinning backwards (Draw) when it contacts an object ball, the cue ball will roll forward or behind the tangent line.
text: If a cue ball is rolling when it contacts an object ball, (topspin) or spinning backwards (Draw) when it contacts an object ball, the cue ball will roll forward or behind the tangent line.
text: If the cue stick strikes the cue ball more than once on a shot, or if the cue stick is in contact with the cue ball when or after the cue ball contacts an object ball, the shot is foul.
text: If a player under the same conditions intentionally causes the cue ball to contact an object ball behind the head string, it is unsportsmanlike conduct.
text: The key to all of these variations is the cue ball must be sliding at the moment it contacts the object ball.
text: If no object ball is pocketed, failure to drive the cue ball or any numbered ball to a rail after the cue ball contacts the object ball on is a foul.
text: If no object ball is pocketed, failure to drive the cue ball or any numbered ball to a rail after the cue ball contacts the object ball on is a foul.
text: Skid Phenomenon where the cue ball contacts the object ball right on a chalk mark and causes it to take a straighter angle than normal.
text: If the cue ball touches an object ball that was already pocketed (for example, in a pocket full of object balls), the shot is a foul.
text: If the cue ball is touching an object ball, then the balls must be respotted: red on its spot and opponent's ball in the centre spot, with the striker to play from in-hand.
text: If the cue ball touches an object ball that was already pocketed (for example, in a pocket full of object balls), the shot is a foul.