Frank Teed

A couple of week  ago there was a Daily Puzzle that featured an early composition by Frank Melville Teed.  Realizing his name wasn't well known, I posted a vey short bio, mostly for fun and without any thought that someone might actually read it.. or care. 

Here is my posting:

Frank Melville Teed had been secretary of the Brooklyn Chess Club, treasurer of the Manhattan Chess Club, a member of the Columbia Chess Club, Problem Editor of Brownson's Dubuque Chess Journal and an associate editor of the American Chess Magazine. During his life he collected 30,000 problems and authored 800. He scored +1-1 against Steinitz in exhibition games in 1883 during one of Steinitz' visits to NYC. Born in New York in 1856, he was employed as a secretary of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co. He died in New Jersey in 1929.

Someone did read it however and asked about Teed's published works.  I didn't know of any compilation, but I did know his problems had been published in various periodicals.  I looked for and found a handful of these problems which I clipped from those periodical and which I'm posting below - the images without the solutions. 

Before that, it might be interesting, even surprising, to read what William Ewart Napier had to say about Teed.  He originally wrote this in is book, Amenities and Background of Chess-play, but I found it in an article published in Chess Review, May 1956:

(Teed played in the 1897 cable match and lost his game to Henry Cole)

Problems from the International Chess Magazine:

April 1888

December 1888

December 1888

Problems from the American Chess Magazine:

August 1899

October-November 1899

Problems from the Brooklyn Chess Chronicle:

November 1882    

November 1882

January 1883

March 1883

May 1883

July 1883

Problems from Brownson's Chess Journal:

January 1891

January 1891

January 1891

January 1891

May 1891

June 1891

September 1891

October 1891

October 1891

January 1892

April 1892

More Teed info, images, games and problems was be found on one of my old blog posts: https://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/teed