If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

If, however, there are no shares left when the chain is founded, then the founding player does not receive the free share.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.

If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.

If the player and dealer have the same point total, this is called a " push " and the player typically doesn't win or lose money on that hand.

If the dealer busts, all remaining player hands win.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

If the dealer's upcard is an ace, the player is offered the option of taking " insurance " before the dealer checks the hole card.

If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.

If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.

If the chains are long enough then the player will certainly win.

If the other player also knows to offer sacrifices, the expert also has to manipulate the number of available sacrifices through earlier play.

If a player rolls two of the same number, called doubles, that player must play each die twice.

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 the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for triple a normal loss.

" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

If the Politburo indeed chose the Central Committee membership, various factions would have arisen.

If the expert was correct, 78 % of the participants chose the expert's opinion again, as opposed to 57 % doing so when the expert was wrong.

If the producers chose to reformat the entire show for the 16: 9 ratio, live-action footage would have to be recropped, widening the frame to the full width of the 35 mm negatives while reducing its height.

If the Champion were to grow disinterested in his pursuits and chose not to continue them, he could potentially die as a result, although since Death decreed no Elder could ever enter its realm, this may no longer be true.

If he chose to, he could turn his original nomen into an additional cognomen that followed his newly gained names.

If this difference, D, is positive then chose otherwise.

In a 1968 article, Garner explained why he chose to set The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a real landscape rather than in a fictional realm, remarking that " If we are in Eldorado, and we find a mandrake, then OK, so it's a mandrake: in Eldorado anything goes.

If the half bet rule were being used, then that raise would count as a genuine raise and the first player would be entitled to re-raise if he chose to ( creating a side pot for the amount of his re-raise and the third player's call, if any ).

If they chose the blue book, it was their own choice and he could feel reasonably secure he was not offending anyone.

If the Party chose, all its people could live in luxury, but they instead choose to lower the quality of living: It is important that the lower classes remain stupefied by poverty and the struggle for mere survival ; if they were to become too comfortable, they might learn to think for themselves and rebel against the Party.

If sites chose to carry the group, which most did, all of Serdar Argic's messages were removed from all newsgroups.

* If Northern Ireland chose to withdraw, a Boundary Commission would be constituted to draw the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

If families chose their home school as their first choice, they were guaranteed that school ; otherwise they were entered into a lottery that gave available spaces in overenrolled schools.

If bacteria that had overcome their own inability to consume lactose passed on this " learned " trait to future generations, it could be argued as a form of Lamarckism ; though Cairns later chose to distance himself from such a position.

If they chose to respond in kind and attack the remaining Soviet missile fleet, there would be little to respond with if the Soviets immediately launched against US cities.

And if the success of the revolution demands a temporary limitation on the working of this or that democratic principle, then it would be criminal to refrain from such a limitation ... The revolutionary proletariat might limit the political rights of the higher classes ... If in a burst of revolutionary enthusiasm the people chose a very fine parliament ... then we would make of it a long parliament ; and if the elections turned out unsuccessfully then we would have to try to disperse it.

If a woman chose to forgo nursing her own child she could visit the Columna Lactaria (" Milk Column "), where poor parents could obtain milk for their infants as charity from wet nurses, and those who could afford it could choose to hire a wet nurse.

If the contribution to the IRA was nondeductible or the IRA owner chose not to claim a deduction for the contribution, distributions of those nondeductible amounts are tax and penalty free.

If Daigorō chose the ball, his father would kill him, sending Daigorō to be with his mother ; however, the child crawls toward the sword and reaches for its hilt.

If James chose a straight mate, James would win nothing and the mate would win $ 25, 000.

If an individual chose to do so, they were invited to mail their sigils to a central location where the magical energy in them could be used to enhance each other.