Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Meyer (* 6 June 1839 in Anderten; † 15 January 1928 in England) was a well- known German chess composer and chess player. The abbreviation H. F. L. Meyer was used in his publications.

Famous Germain chess composer and chess player

Only a few biographical details are known about Meyer.

Chess composing
Meyer's small tasks are part of the important body of composition literature; he presented several composition topics such as Bristol and Indian in an extremely economical way.

In his chess work published in 1882, Meyer introduced the so-called universal notation as a proposal for a worldwide notation standard, which, however, did not prevail. The chess pieces would be named with the letters from K to P.[2]

Factories
A Complete Guide to the Game of Chess: From the Alphabet to the Solution and Construction of Problems. Griffith & Farran 1882, digital copy
Individual evidence
  Manfred Zucker: Great German problem masters (9). In: Schach, No. 12, 1993, p. 68
  Edward Winter: Chess Note 4589: Advice. September 13, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2010

Web links
Commons: Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Meyer - collection of images, videos and audio files
Photo with H. F. L. Meyer (right) at the Cleveland Public Library
Compositions by Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Meyer on the PDB server

This chess problem by him got very famous:

White: Kc1, Rf2, Ba2   (3)

Black: Ka1, c3   (2)

White to move and mate in 3 moves. Solution; 1.Bg8! c2 2.Rf7 Ka2 3.Ra7#

It's a chess problem that will amaze you when you see it for the first time, because only this chess problem was built with so little material.

Reprints of this chess problem (Kc1/Ka1):

 17 Veda a prace 31/12/1903
VIII Die Schwalbe 11-12/1942
8 Mittelbayerische Zeitung 27/11/1948
15 Volksstimme (Chemnitz) 30/07/1960
17 Das logische Schachproblem , p. 31, 1965
43 Schach ohne Partner [Grasemann] , p. 50, 1977
17 Das logische Schachproblem , p. 30, 1980
A Cleric’s Idea, which made History 1981
46 200 Schachrätsel [Lossa] 1984
198 Perlen der Schachkomposition 1985
28 Schachmatni superminiatjuri 1988
K40 Problemkiste (85) 02/1993
3c-1486 2345 Chess Problems 1997
327 Hobelspäne (3) 12/04/2021

Meyer's saying has also become very well known:

    "It is often said that problem composers are bad players, but it might be more correct to say that great players are bad composers." H.F.L. Meyer  

Source: Germain Wikipedia

             Website arves.org by Peter Boll (editor)

Chess player

On Website chessgames.com are some games by H.F.L. Meyer