the hog Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I disagree with most of the above quote. A 2 level bid is not forcing and non-constructive. Its main purpose is to suggest a final contract. AQxxx and out is probably too good for other contracts, but might be acceptable as a tactical bid for its lead direction. Well I disagree with you. I play transfer responses and these can even be game forcing. The old fashioned idea of xx with any 10 count, which you seem to play, died many moons ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAce Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Well I disagree with you. I play transfer responses and these can even be game forcing. The old fashioned idea of xx with any 10 count, which you seem to play, died many moons ago.Ron, once you told me something about English is not being my native language. Which is correct. Now..can you please tell me, which part of the OP asks us about which method being superior? And which part of Bill's comment do you disagree? I thought, OP asked a question and set the method he is interested in. Bill replied accordingly in this context. Bill and biggerclub disagreed in the detail of same context. I did not see any comment by Bill saying that xfer responses are bad or old method is superior. So obviously I am missing something. Can you(who speaks and writes and reads English better than me) or your upvoter (who is I am sure raised with speaking English) or anyone in this forum who speaks English natively show me where I went wrong? Which part did I miss and get confused about your objection to Bill and the upvote? Or I am about to believe that the English language is a b***h sometimes, even for native speakers. http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Firstly Timo, English is not my native language either - just so you know, it is my second language though my English is of native speaker standard.Secondly, Bill said he disagreed with the fact that 2 level bids are constructive. To this I replied that I play transfer responses. For me a tf response into a 2 level bid can even be a gf, so I disagree that 2 level responses are non constructive. You would also be aware of course, that some, though few granted, layers play 2 level responses as forcing after a x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 You would also be aware of course, that some, though few granted, layers play 2 level responses as forcing after a x. This is actually fairly common in England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggerclub Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 This is actually fairly common in England. It is obviously a matter worth discussing as . . . within the space of 7 posts, we have four different treatments. (Although mine was merely an effort to suggest what I think is common practice. As was Bill's if I interpret it correctly.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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