Benjamin picked up bridge again after the war. He opened the Kenmure Bridge Club (universally known as "Benjamin's") in a suburb of Glasgow. He wrote his daily column in the
Glasgow Evening Citizen and wrote on other card games for the
Scottish Weekly News. He opened a business buying and selling second-hand electrical measuring instruments after overhearing a man mention the need during a train journey. The business continued for the rest of his active life. Benjamin represented Scotland 28 times, and eventually had the joy of beating England in 1964 (the first time in a
Camrose Trophy match). However, his greatest contribution to the game was his invention of the most popular variant of the Acol . The system of opening two-bids that he devised used the opening 2 and 2 bids as weak pre-emptive bids, with 2 being used for 23+ points and 2 being used to show strong hands with eight playing tricks. The system is commonly known as
Benji Acol (Benjaminised Acol). There is also
Reverse Benji, in which the meanings of the opening bids of 2 and 2 are transposed. For more, see
Acol. The essence of his idea is that you can play both strong twos (packaged into 2 and 2) and weak majors in the same system. Benjamin described the system in less than a page of
Bridge Magazine, and it became at least as popular amongst tournament players as traditional Acol. He died in Glasgow at the age of 96, in 2006. == References ==