dbree takes forever, but from what I understand, everything new will download. It’s just anything older than few months that won’t. This might help in the process:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Kp5sewJP
This is the dbree downloader, from a few years ago. It’s defunct, but it works. Or… it did. I haven’t tried it recently.
From the site:
15/05/2024
We have a disk failure on our main file server, and for the last month we have been trying our best to get the disk replaced. The main file server is located in a country torn by conflict and war. The data centre where our main file server is located has also been partially damaged which has taken our Internet connection offline. Thankfully the staff operating the data centre are all safe. However, the engineers maintaining the hardware for the data centre have not been able to safely access the site for the last month. While we understand this may be frustrating for our users we need to be mindful that there are more important things in life than zeros and ones. We are a free cloud storage provider and have never asked our users to contribute in order to keep our operations running. We thank you for your continued patience, and if are unable to access a file again then please pause for a moment, and remember to be grateful that you are alive. If there are any further developments we will share this with you.
Regards,
Team Ops
Dbree is hosted somewhere near the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Immortal is back, BTW. It’s on Telegram now, and is almost completely unusable. Mostly people arguing with each other. Also, it automatically downloads all PGNs and EPUBs. So prepare for that, if you go. I was only a member for one day.
I just saw it come through on dbree.
I’ve been trying to figure that out. The PGNs are easy to get. It’s possible to get MP3s. But there doesn’t seem to be any way to capture the video short of screen capture, which wouldn’t be advisable for 240 issues. But it would be an interesting project.
There might legitimately be that many parts to the archive. Some of these courses can run up to fifty parts.
The program linked to above is what I’m looking for. It manages the installation of chess engines, which can be a tedious process. It’s an essential tool, but not easy to find.
There are some at dbree if you search on “new in chess”, and there are some at Anna’s Archive.
I expect they’re just going backwards down the list.