Last month chess lost one of its illustrious sons when Alex Joseph died after a brief illness.
Joseph was a dedicated chess player and a member of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) for about 40 years.
At the beginning of each chess tournament hosted by the GCF, Joseph would be present, raring to go. He won a few and lost a few. But I cannot recall him forthrightly abandoning a tournament owing to consecutive losses. As a colleague of mine would say, “he take his licks and looked forward to the next game”. Past and current tournament directors were aware that Joseph would appear once he was registered to play. He had to be paired.