[blml] Situation normal, all...

[David Burn]

[DALB]

Having bid an insufficient 1H, am I now allowed to respond to partner's
opening bid of 1H with a natural and forcing 2H?

[EL]

Of course you are.  Your attempt to open 1H is AI to partner.  "Law 16D does
not apply" could hardly be more explicit, could it?

[DALB]

But partner does not know that I was attempting to open 1H. All he knows is
that he has opened 1H and I have responded 1H. I might have intended to
raise to 2H, but mistakenly raised to 1H instead. Is the notion that I have
to explain why I bid 1H, so that on some hands I can bid a non-forcing 2H
and on others I can bid a forcing 2H? If so, either the world has gone mad
or I have.

David Burn
London, England