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2/1 game forcing (Two-over-one game forcing) is a bidding system in modern contract bridge structured around the following responses to a one-level opening bid: a non-jump response in a new suit at the one-level is constructive and forcing for one round, a non-jump response in a new suit at the two-level is forcing to game, and
Larry Teaches 2/1 Game Force (Self-Published April 2012) My Favorite 52 (Toronto: Master Point Press, 2009) Larry Cohen's Bidding Challenge (Toronto: Master Point Press, 2002) OCLC 48533856; Introduction to the Law (Devyn Press, 1997) Bridge Below the Belt, Cohen and Liz Davis (Boca Raton, FL: Natco, 1997) OCLC 37682710
For example, on the sequence 1 ♣-1 ♠ (with or without opponent's interfering);1NT-2 ♣;2 ♦,2 ♥ will show an invitational hand with minimum five spades and four hearts, 2 ♠ an invitational hand with minimum five spades (in which case one does not have four hearts) or possibly six spades with or without four hearts. 2NT will show a balanced invitational hand, 3 ♣ typically an ...
To Bid or Not to Bid: The Law of Total Tricks by Larry N. Cohen; Right Through the Pack by Robert Darvas and Norman de V. Hart; Bridge with the Blue Team by Pietro Forquet; Commonly Used Conventions in the 21st Century by Audrey Grant; How the Experts Win at Bridge by Burt and Rose Hall; Two Over One Game Force (Revised and Expanded) by Max Hardy
This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. [1] [2] Systems listed have either had an historical impact on the development of bidding in the game or have been or are currently being used at the national or international levels of competition. Bidding systems are characterized as belonging to one of two broadly defined categories:
Bridge bidding systems that incorporate a strong 2 clubs opening bid include modern Standard American, standard Acol, 2/1 game forcing and many others. In most natural bridge bidding systems, the opening bid of 2 ♣ is used exclusively for hands too strong for an opening bid at the one-level.
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Later, in the US, Marty Bergen and Larry Cohen popularized the approach, using their preferred abbreviation: 'the LAW' (all capitals). [2] It was prefigured in S. J. "Skid" Simon's 1945 book Why You Lose at Bridge in his aphorism "When in doubt, bid one more". [3]