i enjoy playing recreational games like cards , darts or billiards.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,  are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, \"billiards\" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context. There are 3 major subdivisions of games within cue sports:   There are other variants that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls. Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century, to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her billiard table cover in 1586, through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line \"let's to billiards\" in \"Antony and Cleopatra\" (1606\u201307), and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport such as: Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Gr\u00e9vy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C.\u00a0Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My brother loves playing something called cue sports but I don't know much about what that is. Is it like golf or pool?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's basically a broad term for a variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, like billiards or pool for example."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh awesome. Is it a popular sport in the United States?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think it's a fairly niche sport to be honest, I know that billiards means different things depending on if you're in Britain or the US though, oddly enough."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh does it? I don't really know what billiards is. I do know pool pretty well though. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think they're pretty similar, billiards has quite a long and rich history though, it was first created in the 15th century for instance."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow that is a long time ago! Are there tournaments or anything?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes there are definitely professional pool tournaments, surprisingly even Babe Ruth and George Washington were billiards fans!"}]