If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss.

If a player is one point away from winning a match, that player's opponent will always want to double as early as possible in order to catch up.

If unsuccessful, the shot disc is " fouled " and removed from the board, along with any of the player's other discs that were moved during the shot.

* If a player's injury causes the play-clock to stop, the player must sit out at least one play ; and

If a player's piece lands on a square containing an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is captured and returns to the starting area.

* If a player's piece lands on another of their own pieces, they are doubled and form a " block " which cannot be passed by any opponent's pieces.

If the entry space is occupied by another player's piece, that piece is captured.

If an opponent has a made hand that will beat the player's draw, then the player is drawing dead ; even if they make their desired hand, they will lose.

If a player's front hand beats the dealer's front hand, and the player's rear hand beats the dealer's rear hand, then that player wins the bet.

If a player's front and rear hands both lose to the dealer's respective hands, the player loses the bet.

If each of the player's now-separated hands beat the banker's corresponding hand then he wins the bet.

If a player's side cards are small or his larger pair is large, he should split the pairs.

If either the 2nd player chooses to move to the square diagonal to the first player or the first player's 2nd move is not to this square given the choice, then a starting position before flipping moves commence that differs from the standard Othello position arises.

If at least three points have been scored by each player, making the player's scores equal at forty apiece, the score is not called out as " forty-forty ", but rather as " deuce ".

If a piece of a different color than the player's current piece is shot, the player's piece will switch colors with it.

If, on completion of a move, a player's token lands on the lower-numbered end of a " ladder ", the player moves his token up to the ladder's higher-numbered square.

If a player collects either three cards with the same symbol, or one of each, these cards may be traded in for reinforcements at the beginning of a player's turn.

It's a chess player's sense: If I do this, the following 15 things are going to happen, and if step 11 goes so, I'll do this rather than that.

If a player's move places the opponent's king under attack, that king is said to be in check, and the player in check is required to immediately remedy the situation.

If none of these three options are possible, the player's king has been checkmated and the player loses the game.

If a player expends more than the specified increment, then the entire increment is added to the player's clock.

If a player's computer has a microphone, it is possible to use it to communicate with other players.

If a king held sway over a large kingdom, such as when the Mercians dominated the East Anglians, the relationship would have been more equal than in the case the Mercian dominance of the Hwicce, which was a comparatively small kingdom.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

If the compromise was a rebuke to the most radical vision of the liberty of the Church, on at least one point its implication was firm and unmistakable: The king, even an emperor, was a layman.

If he had been in exile, Constantine may have returned to Pictland where his cousin Donald II became king.

If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

If the occupant was a king, it was probably either Saebert or Sigeberht ( murdered AD 653 ).

If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.

If the clergy misuses ecclesiastical property, it must be taken away ; if the king does not do this, he is remiss.

If one of the clergy neglects his office, he is a traitor to the king who calls him to answer for it.

If the clergy relies on papal pronouncements, it must be subjected to obedience to the king.

* If the pope finds that the king who has been elected by the princes is unworthy of the imperial dignity, the princes must elect a new king or, if they refuse, the pope will confer the imperial dignity upon another king ; for the Church stands in need of a patron and defender.

If found worthy of the kingship, the augur announced that the gods had given favorable tokens, thus confirming the king ’ s priestly character.

If one were attacked, the king would come to his aid.

If the votes pass, the king keeps the government and king how it is, if they don't, then everything changes.

If the nations were tools of Yahweh, then the new king who would come to redeem Israel might not be a Judean as taught in older literature ( e. g. Psalm 2 ).

If the defendant could not produce a royal licence to prove the grant of the liberty, then it was the crown's opinionbased on the writings of the influential thirteenth-century legal scholar Bractonthat the liberty should revert to the king.

If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.