E/W Vul
IMPs
Dealer: North
Lead: 
A
lfisher J 10 5 10 9 4 K Q 6 K J 8 2 |
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| fiko Q 9 7 A Q J 6 2 A 10 8 Q 4 |
![[W - E]](http://gee.aaronhaspel.com/files/2012/10/t.gif) |
seawind 8 4 2 K 7 J 7 5 2 A 9 7 6 |
| Maestro A K 6 3 8 5 3 9 4 3 10 5 3 |
| West
1 |
North Pass Pass Pass Pass |
East Pass 1NT 3NT |
South Pass Pass Pass |
West’s opening 1H is the root of all evil in today’s auction. A more usual 1NT would provoke either a pass or, conceivably, an invitational raise by East (I would pass the East hand over 1NT); and with best play by both sides declarer most likely makes eight tricks.
On the actual auction, however, East replies a forcing 1NT. West raises to 2NT, for his second bad bid of the auction (2D is better), East aggressively accepts the invitation, and here we are, in another apparently hopeless 3NT.
A low spade lead forces declarer to fly the SQ from dummy for eight tricks, let alone nine, but Gee, South, opens the SA, on which North plays the jack, indicating possession of the 10. (Of course the J could be stiff, but in this case East suppressed a five-card spade suit over 1H.)
A low spade continuation beats the contract straightaway, and so does a switch to either minor, although the play is a little cloudier. Gee thinks matters over and switches to a heart. Declarer wins in hand and leads a low club toward the queen, pretty much his only quasi-legitimate chance for nine tricks. North wins with the CK, and now makes his crucial contribution to the defense by returning the DK, the only way to let the game make.
Declarer wins, plays back the D10, which North ducks to no avail, and continues a third round of diamonds. +600. This provokes a lively post mortem:
G: aren’t we playing udca?
lfisher: yes, i am
Spec #1: what did udca have to do with anything?
G: play 10, then small and finally J
Spec #2: G thinks JS is udca :)
Spec #3: oh my god
G: ok?
Spec #1: that is sick
Spec #3: and the heart switch and the non spade return and the diamond switch and…
Spec #4: I thought the spade J showed the spade T even with UDCA
Spec #2: absolutely
Spec #1: well that is in normal udca
Spec #1: but in GUDCA everything is upside down to begin with
Spec #1: and backwards also
Don’t talk about what you don’t know, aaron… Looks like you have actually nothing to talk about following this principle!… And I would like to know the names of your 4 imbeciles who made the comments you relate… they’d better learn how UDCA works, and you too before making such stupid, off the wall comments…
In the Contract Bridge Bulletin of August 2002, at the very bottom of page 46: “Berkowitz led the HQ and Cohen dropped the HJ to show the 10.” Clearly Larry Cohen is unfamiliar with the “Law of Gerard” and the subtleties of GUDCA. Perhaps Gee will enlighten the bridge world with a new treatise on defense. Suggested titles may be Bridge Defense Is Cooperative or Defensive Conversations In Bridge.