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Snooker players chalk the cue for spin
Chalk roughens the tip so it grips the ball off centre without slipping Striking the cue ball away from its centre makes it spin, which controls the path of the cue ball after contact. Without chalk, the tip would slide off and the shot would miscue. Players chalk between shots, and a miss is often put down to a worn tip. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Snooker players chalk the cue for spin: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Chalk roughens the tip so it grips the ball off centre without slipping. The figure is taken from World Snooker, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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