Ben Cohen (bridge player)
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Ben Cohen (1907 - ?) lived in Hove, Sussex, UK. He was an author, publisher and distributor of bridge books and stationery supplies. He pioneered duplicate bridge in the UK in the early 1930s and was the originator, with others, of the Acol bidding system in the mid 1930s. He contributed to newspapers and journals in South Africa, India, Japan as well as the UK. With Rhoda Barrow, he co-edited the European edition of The Bridge Players' Encyclopedia 1967 (based on America's The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge 1964).
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- Cohen and Barrow (Ed), The Bridge Players' Encyclopedia 1967 Paul Hamlyn, London, UK
- Cohen, Acol without tears 1962 George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, UK