Hm. I agree with that, but when I'm trying to get beginners onto the right page, I find it more useful if they can get the contract broadly correct most of the time, rather than learning how to bid the first two rounds of bidding by rote and then not knowing what to do.
If you actually recognise that you have a game contract, the benefit of bidding slowly is that you'll find the right game, or that when you have game you'll be able to sense whether you might have slam. But if you bid slowly always because you don't recognise whether you have game or not, it'll look superficially similar, but not actually help you.
So I'd prefer to teach beginners to place the contract in approximately the right place first, and only when they have that, refine it to know when to go slowly.
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Date: 2013-01-23 11:32 am (UTC)If you actually recognise that you have a game contract, the benefit of bidding slowly is that you'll find the right game, or that when you have game you'll be able to sense whether you might have slam. But if you bid slowly always because you don't recognise whether you have game or not, it'll look superficially similar, but not actually help you.
So I'd prefer to teach beginners to place the contract in approximately the right place first, and only when they have that, refine it to know when to go slowly.