On-line engine blitz tourney February

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A full-blown server is an extremely complex piece of software, perhaps 10 times more complex than a GUI. FICS takes not only care of mediating games, but also of a user administration, game database, inter-user messaging, broadcasting games to observers, e-mailing...

Of course for a monthly tournament we could leave out a lot of that. E.g. people can record their own games, user verification could be based on paswords e-mailed to the server operator, people could chat through an unrelated chat server...