Bridge - Senior Team Trial for the World Mind Sports Games - NYTimes.com The 90-board final of the senior team trial for the second World Mind Sports Games ended on Wednesday in Schaumburg, Ill. The winner will represent the United States in Lille, France, in August. The match was between Carolyn Lynch, Mike Passell, Garey Hayden, John Sutherlin, Marc Jacobus and Eddie Wold; and Richie Schwartz, Lew Finkel, Neil Chambers, John Schermer, Stephen Landen and Sam Lev. Schwartz led by 31 international match points after 30 boards. But Lynch had two strong sessions to go ahead by 25 imps. In the penultimate set, Schwartz gained points in dribs and drabs, and had one big gain when Passell and Sutherlin bid a bad slam that failed. With Schwartz ahead by 1 imp, hundreds of spectators watched the tense battle over the last 15 boards on Bridge Base Online. With five deals to be played, Schwartz led by 5 imps. The diagramed deal was Board 86. The given auction by Chambers (North) and Schermer (South) reached the least-bad game contract of three no-trump, which was unbeatable with diamonds breaking 3-3. Hayden (West) led his fourth-highest heart. Passell (East) won with his king and returned the seven, South's ten losing to West's ace. Declarer took the third heart with his queen, played a spade to dummy's ace and returned a diamond to his king. He continued with the diamond queen and eventually lost only three hearts and one diamond. At the other table, Wold (North) opened one spade, which showed 11 to 15 points; Jacobus (South) responded two diamonds; and North rebid three hearts, indicating at least 5-5 in the black suits. The problem now, though, was that South had to guess how many hearts his partner held. If he was very short, three no-trump would probably have no chance. After some thought, South continued with four clubs and ended in five clubs. Landen (West) led the heart ace. When Lev (East) encouraged enthusiastically with his jack, West continued with a second heart. East won and cashed the diamond ace, and West had a trump trick to come for down two. Plus 400 and plus 100 gave Schwartz 11 imps on the board and the lead by 16. Schwartz gained 4 more points on the next two deals, effectively ending the match. Schwartz won by 174 imps to 158.