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The eBook is available as PDF, Kindle (mobi), and Sony Nook (epub) formats.
The printed book is a soft-cover 7" x 10".

The Art of War versus The Art of Pool
(if Sun Tsu played pool, this is how he would teach strategy & tactics)

The words of the famous and ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu have been read, studied, and applied by millions of students of warfare and those who compare their livelihood to be a similar life and death competition. Many advisors to the movers and shakers of the world have made their fortunes by converting his words for the applications in sports, business and politics.

Many aspects of the 2500 year old treatise on how to wage war have a direct application to the tactics and strategies used in games played upon pocket billiard tables across the world. This book is a presentation of those similarities.

With this knowledge, your viewpoint will shift and adjust. You will see aspects of the game that previously were hidden. These discoveries belong to you and you alone. This is your voyage of discovery. and it will lead to new realizations. The application of that knowledge will stay with you until the last day you ever pick up a stick.

Table of Contents

Introduction & welcome
01 Calculations
02 Waging war
03 Planning attacks
04 Tactical dispositions
05 Energy
06 Weakness and strength
07 Maneuvering
08 Variation in tactics
09 Maneuvers
10 Terrain
11 The nine situations
12 Attack by fire
13 Use of spies
Notes
    Concept of pool
    Intelligent player definition
    Energy cycle

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