Five-pin billiards
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Five-pins or five-pin billiards (Italian cinque birilli) is a carom billiards cue sport, popular in Italy and part of Latin America, with televised tournaments and international, professional competition.
History
Until around 1980, the game (with some rules differences) was played on a pocket billiards table, but professional and regulated amateur play today exclusively uses pocketless carom billiards tables. Also, in former periods, it was common for the object ball to be smaller than the cue balls.
Equipment
The game is played on a pocketless table (with standardized dimensions of 284 x 142 cm). Like most other carom games, it requires three billiard balls of equal diameter, a red Object ball, a plain white cue ball for the first player or team, and a yellow or spotted-white cue ball for the second player or team.
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Like saying from the same name, to the center of the billiards it comes inserted a cross of birilli composed from 4 birilli white men and one centers them red, puttinges in perpendicular way to the sides and from each other distances you of the closely necessary space to the passage of one biglia.
Rules
Though there are variants in Central and South America, the rules for Italian five-pin billiards are the best codifed, and because the Italian championships are international and are major, televised events, the Italian rules are the global de facto standard.
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Game comes carried out from 2 squares of players (normally composed from 1 or 2 players for square) that, after the choice it begins them of the own one biglia colored to maintain for all the duration of the game and the sistemazione of the biglie in the fixed position of departure (visualizzabile in the image), proceed to the game shooting, always alternated between the 2 squares. Scope of the game is that one to hit with the stick the own one biglia, to send it to hit the biglia opposing of way that, this last one, in its race on the game table sweeps up the birilli. All this avoiding absolutely to sweep up them with the own one biglia, case this that door instead to “drink” the points, that is to supply an advantage to the opposing square (that it consists in assigning to this the points earns more those “drunk ones to you”). The game finishes at the beginnig to the attainment of the fixed score from the players of the game, usually between 50 and 60 points, while the points are obtained with the fall of the birilli or hitting with one of the biglie of the players the bullet. The scores are estimated as it follows: every birillo low-spirited white man is worth 2 points; the birillo they centers (red) is worth 4 points if pulled down with at least an other birillo white man, or 8 points if pulled down alone; the bullet is worth 3 points if hit with biglia opposing or the 4 points if it comes hit with the own one biglia (said clapper), obviously always after to have touched the biglia opposing. Other diffuse games much in several Italy and with points of contact with this are the 9 birilli (or goriziana) and the boccette. White of Italian gold world-wide
Italian World Five-pins Championship, "stecca" (edition, winner)
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1° 1965 SANTA FE - ARGENTINA GOMEZ Manuel Argentina
2° 1968 BELL VILLE - ARGENTINA BERRONDO Anselmo Uruguay
3° 1975 CAMPIONE D'ITALIA - ITALIA ACANFORA Domenico Italia
4° 1978 BELL VILLE - ARGENTINA FANTASIA Ricardo Argentina
5° 1979 PESARO - ITALIA SESSA Attilio Italia
6° 1980 NECOCHEA - ARGENTINA GOMEZ Nestor Argentina
7° 1982 LOANO - ITALIA GOMEZ Nestor Argentina
8° 1983 MARCO JUAREZ - ARGENTINA BORRELLI Miguel Angel Argentina
9° 1985 SPOLETO - ITALIA ROSANNA Giampiero Italia
10° 1987 MILANO - ITALIA CIFALA' Carlo Italia
11° 1989 CHIASSO - SVIZZERA TORREGIANI Gustavo Argentina
12° 1990 BRESCIA - ITALIA TORREGIANI Gustavo Argentina
13° 1992 AREZZO - ITALIA ROSANNA Giampiero Italia
14° 1993 BOLIVAR - ARGENTINA CAVAZZANA Fabio Italia
15° 1995 FIUGGI - ITALIA ZITO Gustavo Italia
16° 1998 FERRARA - ITALIA MARTINELLI David Italia
17° 1999 NECOCHEA - ARGENTINA ZITO Gustavo Italia
18° 2003 LEGNANO - ITALIA MAGGIO Crocefisso Italia
19° 2006 SIVIGLIA - SPAGNA ANIELLO Michelangelo Italia
Trivia
- Five-pins is a major plot-point of the Italian-produced English-language film Bye Bye Baby, which stars Brigitte Nielsen as a professional player.