1988 World Snooker Championship
The 1988 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1988 Embassy World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a ranking professional snooker tournament that took place from 16 April to 2 May 1988 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), it was the sixth and final ranking event of the 1987–88 snooker season and the twelfth consecutive World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible, the first tournament there having taken place in 1977. 