i notice there are a couple of chat rooms, members bar, snooker club, sports bar etc,

can anyone use any of these, why are there different ones etc

As far as I know all members can use these chat rooms.
I for one, constantly use the snooker club as the practice room of choice because it is quieter - the members bar chat area rapidly fills up with entry/exit messages and of course chat. This means that I am less likely to miss friends coming online/getting high breaks/tournament notifications etc.

I presume though that the original plan was to have different chat rooms so that people could discuss different topics i.e. members bar for general chat, snooker club for game related chat and the sports club for general sport chat.

Well you live and learn. Never knew that Dave. I usually go into different chat rooms for Dave's reasons etc. I still think there should be a room called 'Away' or 'Be right Back' for when your are elswhere from your PC so people know you're not talking.

good idea sam as im away from computer alot and i get so many pms, so brilliant idea