BjornH

Is not being in the right "state of mind" an issue here? That is, if you focus solely on beating the contract or making the contract instead of overtricks/undertricks, you save energy that you (presumably) can use to make more/beat more contracts? And that will be more rewarding in the long run (for most of us, anyway)? Bjørn

I do think that in an Acol-inspired bidding system, 2 H is not forcing but shows 5-4 or 5-5 and 6-10/11 points. To force you need to jump to 3 H which shows 5-5. You have a problem with 5-4 and forcing to game values, but gain with 5-4/5-5 and a weak hand. I think that in Norway, there were quite a few good pairs who bid this way a couple of years ago (and perhaps still do). Bjørn