«Children's tournaments are some kind of the litmus piece of paper showing development of billiard sports in general». Words with which it is impossible to disagree, one of spectators on the youthful Superiority of the Siberian Federal district which have taken place in the beginning of August in Novosibirsk has said. "Has taken place" - so it is possible to tell about this long-awaited tournament. The idea of competition in which young billiard-players of Siberia would participate, kept up within three years, and only this year, at last, has been realised.

Traditionally company “Matchroom Sport” holds tournament «16 best» under the name “World Pool Masters”. Was not an exception and this year. Taken place in the Dutch small town Egmond Aan Zi (Egmond Aan Zee) competition has caused a stir under the full program. The innovative structure, unexpected result and a couple of sensations have given it smack of exclusiveness.

There are people meetings with which happen short, but leave improbably bright impression for many long years. George Stepanovich Mitasov is a live history of the Russian billiards. It has won uncountable quantity of awards and ranks, knew personally and trained many people with loud names, has let out three collections of verses … It seems, he knows all not only about billiards, but also about this world as a whole. Even the most simple words from his lips sound as eternal trues. After all it actually – the Person-legend.

On one of billiard forums on the Internet there are тринадцатистраничный топик, devoted to Pavel Cheremisinu, commentator ТК Sports which conducts reportings on billiard fights. Opinions on Pavel and its work express opposite. Топик lives in a network about one year. For the Internet it is huge term which says that person Cheremisina does not cease to be game interesting to admirers.

The American sportsman Kori Duel has passed such «for the child prodigy from a pool». It has begun sports career early enough, and has very quickly achieved the big successes. The habitue of large international tournaments, Measles of Duel is interested not only a pool. He admitted interview to our magazine that dreams to visit Russia and to battle to local authorities of "Pyramid".

As the history speaks, billiards to Kazakhstan was delivered"by Chokan Valihanov, the known Kazakhstan educator, the democrat, the traveller, the ethnographer, the researcher of history and culture of the people of average Asia and Grigory Koltakovsky, the future first city governor True, nowadays – Almaty. Both of them served as aide-de-camps in Omsk at the West Siberian governor general, there and have got acquainted with this fascinating game. The nstojashchy billiard table was at the first governor True, nowadays Alma-Ata, Grigory Koltakovskogo. Big фрейберговский the table on the graphite basis has got to Almaty too thanks to Koltakovsky. It was almost one and a half centuries after billiards occurrence in Russia.

Dmitry Baev, двадцатидвухлетний the player from Tomsk, has come to billiards, it is possible to tell, independently. More often young sportsmen начитают to play by means of fathers-billiard-players who put «young talents» to a table. Dmitry has seen for the first time billiards in live houses at the schoolmate. Has come on a visit, took кий in hands. Yes so since then also does not let out. There were to Dmitry at that point in time 14 years.