I’m resurrecting this thread because I finally got around to watching Sinuca brasileira (Brazilian Snooker). I watched it on YouTube, of course. Hoping to see some in person since there are some Brazilian clubs in this town.
The game is a streamlined version of the standard game: different enough to be considered a separate game; similar enough to be appreciable by those only familiar with the standard game.
I just became aware of another rarely-applied rule of snooker. (The rule isn’t even mentioned in the Wikipedia summary; I eventually found it in the WayBack Machine!)
Sometimes a position will develop similar to perpetual check in chess, or where 50 strokes are made without a a pawn move or ball potting! By mutual consent, the players can abandon the game, i.e. do a rerack. What I didn’t realize is that the referee can force a game to end in stalemate.
I’ve been watching Snooker YouTubes. I’ve yet to see the referee declare a stalemate, but the topic came up in the commentary to two YouTubes: