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What should I Bid? - Best enquiry for November 2008 The best submission for November came from Brian Thorp. Hand: Dealer North, NS vulnerable, I was West holding:
Comments: We missed our 6 As 3 Second question (whilst on the topic).
However at the 1 and 2 levels I play it as forcing for one round only. Also, at the one level I still play it as asking, though I believe some players think it best to play it as showing. Do you think my 1- and 2- level treatments are best? Thanks, Sartaj's Reply: Hi Brian, I think it's just brilliant when the person who poses the problem proposes the answer too :) Yes, I agree that 3 The other question about fourth-suit forcing, it appears that there is some English influence on your bidding style! The Great Britain area seems to be the only part of the world where some people prefer the 1-round forcing approach. More or less, in the expert community, fourth suit is played as game-forcing. At the risk of sometimes overbidding to a game, it makes the regular game-forcing auctions more intelligent and gives us a better chance both to play the best game and towards investigating potential slam issues. At the one level there is only one auction 1 You might also be interested to know that all the natural Italian pairs are
these days trying a new scheme. After 1x- 1Y; 1Z they play 2
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