Jim Abblet, Goodbye ...( Only Chess Computers)

[Kirill Kryukov]

Also, I'd be happy to host a mirror of Jim's site with engine compiles, if it is possible and if no one else is doing that yet.

There is a 3.5 GB file download link on Jim's site containing everything he has ever done.

Uploaded:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/

[JuLieN]

Also, I'd be happy to host a mirror of Jim's site with engine compiles, if it is possible and if no one else is doing that yet.

There is a 3.5 GB file download link on Jim's site containing everything he has ever done.

Uploaded:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/

Thanks, Kirill! ✌

[RJN]

Also, I'd be happy to host a mirror of Jim's site with engine compiles, if it is possible and if no one else is doing that yet.

There is a 3.5 GB file download link on Jim's site containing everything he has ever done.

Uploaded:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/

Nice, and thanks.

JA leaving is one of those cases where you don't know what you have until it's gone.

[Henk]

I do not know Jim Ablett. I do know JFK.

[tmokonen]

Thank you Kirill, and thank you Jim for all the hard work over the years, and the nice going away present.

[Don]

Jim Abblet was the real deal - a tremendous asset to the computer chess community. His presence will be missed.

[Werner]

Yes, Jim Ablett will be missed very much!
Thank you Jim!
Werner

[Charles Browne]

There is a 3.5 GB file download link on Jim's site containing everything he has ever done.

Unfortunately, the bundle seems to be no longer available

Thank you Jim!!! Good luck!

The download is - for now anyway - still available from the mega.co.nz link on Jim's page. If you see what I see when you go to the mega.co.nz link there will be a cloud graphic with animated rotating gears. Below the cloud and gears graphic is a bar. The bar will slowly fill with an indicator line that moves to the right. Once the bar indicator moves all the way to the right it will go to the download page.

I'm using FireFox browser and had to give FireFox permission to download the file but it didn't ask where I wanted the file downloaded to. It turned out that pieces of the download were being saved to the Mozilla 'Profiles' directory in the Windows 'Application Data' directory. The path to the downloaded pieces for me was:
'Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\a8o9ypgf.default\indexedDB\ (a created mega.co.nz directory)'

Some six hours later the the mega.co.nz web page showed that the download was complete and the Windows dialog box popped up asking where to save the file. I stayed connected to the web page and no indication was given that anything was going on but the downloaded pieces in the Mozilla Profile directory were being joined together into the final JA-Bundle-Final.exe file. Again, No indication was given that the JA-Bundle-Final.exe file was being joined together I just saw that it was. Once the pieces were joined together Jim's exe file extracted without problems. After the JA-Bundle-Final.exe file was joined together I had to manually delete the directory in the Mozilla Profiles directory that had the downloaded pieces in them.


YMMV

[Norm Pollock]

Thanks Jim for all the help you gave me. Best wishes for whatever you decide to do.
-Norm

[Sylwy]

Maestro JIM, you are irreplaceable !

SilvianR