If the score reaches 20-all, then the game continues until one side gains a two point lead ( such as 24 – 22 ), up to a maximum of 30 points ( 30 – 29 is a winning score ).

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 a player bets 1 unit on red, his chance of winning 1 unit is therefore 18 / 38 and his chance of losing 1 unit ( or winning-1 ) is 20 / 38.

If this makes all the heaps of size zero ( in misère play ), the winning move is to take k objects from one of the heaps.

If more than one player remains in contention after the final betting round, the hands are revealed and the player with the winning hand takes the pot.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using list PR in its multimember districts ( MMDs ) the winning candidate needs a relative majority of the votes to win, so that the election in the SMD is by first-past-the-post.

If so many voters give their first preferences to the " weak " candidate that it ends up winning the first round, it is highly likely they will gain enough campaign momentum to have a strong chance of winning the runoff, too, and with it, the election.

If each firm's sales consist of a small number of high-value contracts, then it can make a relatively large short-term gain from cheating on the agreement and thereby winning more of these contracts.

If he is hired to fight the Turks, he will bluster about fighting them to his last drop of blood, but when the Turks seem to be winning, he will join them.

If an aero club won three races in five years, they would retain the cup and the winning pilot would receive 75, 000 francs.

If teams are ranked according to points scored, however, a team that knows it cannot hope to catch up to the winning team might favour quickly catching the Snitch ( also ending the game ) so as to end the game before any more points are scored and hence reduce the lead in point difference obtained by the winning team, so that it is easier to win them back in subsequent matches.

If playing an opponent not using a tablebase, such a choice will give good chances of winning within fifty moves.

" If He Walked into My Life " from Mame was recorded by Eydie Gormé, winning her a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female in 1967.

If Bob were to win the auction, he would have to pay the amount equal to the winning bid ($ 3. 25 ), even though his previous bid was much larger than that.

If you intentionally throw away a winning hand, a " magician " appears and replaces the losing result with a hand that pays the predetermined amount.

However, Pohl never won the annual Hugo Award for his stewardship of Galaxy, winning three Hugos instead for its sister magazine, If.

After two years Frederik Pohl took over as editor, and it was under Pohl that If achieved its greatest success, winning the Hugo Award for best professional magazine three years running from 1966 to 1968.

Gladys Knight & the Pips joined the Motown roster in 1966, and, although regarded as a second-string act, scored several hit singles, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", ( recorded later by Marvin Gaye ), " Friendship Train " ( 1969 ), " If I Were Your Woman " ( 1970 ), " I Don't Want To Do Wrong " ( 1971 ), the Grammy Award winning " Neither One of Us ( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye )" ( 1972 ), and " Daddy Could Swear ( I Declare )" ( 1973 ).

If ( for example ) a magic sword is considered to have real-world value, a player who kills a powerful monster to earn such a sword could find himself being charged tax on the value of the sword, as would be normal for a " prize winning ".

He pointed to Tilden's " phenomenal. 938 winning percentage ", said " If I had to choose someone to play for my life it would be Pancho Gonzalez ", praised Borg's uncanny transition from the French Open to Wimbledon, cited Sampras's " assault on the citadels of the past ", and called Laver " in my eyes, the greatest player ever ".

If is any family of sets meeting the above criteria, then has a winning strategy if and only if is meagre.

If the score is tied at 1 less than the originally agreed winning total ( i. e. 10-10 or 14-14 ) then the winning total is increased by 1 ( 12 and 16, respectively ) but no further ( unlike in tennis where you have to win by 2 points in a tie-break ).

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

If the superscription of the book of Zephaniah is a reliable indicator of the time that the bulk of the book was composed, then Zephaniah was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah ( or Jeremias ).

If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

If a bookmaker follows the rules of the Bayesian calculus in the construction of his odds, a Dutch book cannot be made.

If hop bets are not on the craps layout, they still may be bet on by players but they become the responsibility of the boxman to book the bet.

Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei writes Si fallor, sum (" If I am mistaken, I am ") ( book XI, 26 ), and also anticipates modern refutations of the concept.

If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

If Solomon was the author, the book underwent a later modernization of language.

If the book isn't burned or returned to the firehouse within 24 hours then the firemen will burn it for him.

If the book itself, Animal Farm, had left any doubt of the matter, Orwell dispelled it in his essay Why I Write: ' Every line of serious work that I ’ ve written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against Totalitarianism ... dot, dot, dot, dot.

In his book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question ?, Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation.

In addition, multiple continuities are visited in the comic book series What If, What The --?!

The first documented appearance of the word " nerd " is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo ( 1950 ), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect " a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too " for his imaginary zoo.

If Canadians wish to enter the US via air, they must use a passport book.

If the book is flipped at a fast enough speed, the illusion of smooth motion is created.

" Additionally, in book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: " If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire ; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god.

Al-Tha ' aalabi says in his book Fiqh Al-Lughah ( Understanding Language ) in chapter 13 titled ' The Degrees of Blackness in Humans ': " If there is a slight blackness in his / her complexion, he / she is asmar ( sumrah ).

If included in the book, it would have followed, or been included at the end of, chapter 8 – the chapter featuring the encounter with the White Knight.