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My chess engine

I've programmed a chess engine. I've named her Volchitsa and she can be downloaded with this link: www.dropbox.com/sh/ktnc9uookm5gl92/AABB6wqmkW17ZuxllAKgZr0Ca?dl=0 .
Most of the code is original but I must admit that I've used some of Vice's code.

I think that she is of about club player strength, but I am not sure and curious how she would perform against human opponents. So I would like to try to organize a correspondence (double) round robin on lichess in which she will participate. I think 3 days per move would be a nice time control but I might use a slower time control if people find it too fast. All games will be casual ofcourse.

Please leave a message in this thread if you are interested in joining such a tournament.
I'm not downloading those .exe... Why don't you release the source?
To be honest, I'm not sure whether I'm comfortable to show everybody my bad coding.
I personally consider not feeling comfortable sharing my source code a good enough reason, especially since I have little to gain from sharing it. Except for perhaps convincing people that it isn't a virus or something.
I also dont feel like downloading this could be a virus
It's not that, just there's no point in such a project if it's closed-source IMO.
I only programmed it for my own entertainment and to maybe learn a bit about programming in C.
And I was mostly just hoping to be able to pair it against a few humans, I would operate it, they wouldn't risk a virus infection or anything.
Also, may I ask how you consider that it might add sense to my project if it were open source?
You should be looking for advices, since this is your very first programming project. Hosting the code on, say, GitHub, helps a lot.

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