cherdano Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Clearly natural bidders will start: p 1C Won't some natural bidders start: P-1♠ or P-1NT? What is the point of this post? The point is that many in North America misuse "natural" to mean "standard" or "normal for this region" when the methods they describing are not necessarily natural. Nor are they necessarily superior to more natural methods. I think this misuse of "natural" also highlights the one-way-to-do-things, homogenized thinking of many in ACBL-land. I don't think this one way of looking at things is a good thing for bridge. I think it is excellent for bridge in the US that two expert players can sit down without discussion and have a huge set of common ground of agreements and style issues that they can assume (much more than two German experts after 4-5 hours of discussion - not to single out Germany here, just giving the example of which I am quite confident that I am right). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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