Add Internet Mahjong Server and Mahjong Masters Millions rulesets

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The Internet Mahjong Server was online Mahjong server software created in 1996. The software ran on several servers with links being provided on the creator's home page [1]. The last server to run IMS went defunct some time in 2003-2004.

Version 0.2 (the oldest surviving version) [2] had scoring in terms of faan and bonus points, with a unique settling table.

Mahjong Masters Millions was a planned tournament to be held in Australia in 1997, with a $1,000,000 prize pool. While the tournament never occurred, the rules were publicly posted online [3]. The creator of the IMS was one of the people involved in drafting these rules. The scoring is a mix of faan and basic points, but basic points are converted into faan in a simple manner. The settling table is changed, and the payment scheme is now closer to the Japanese system.

After this, the scoring rules were subsequently backported to the IMS with some alterations to form the later IMS scoring system [4], This has a few extra combinations and a new settling table, but most notably the payment scheme is changed, with self-pick now being worth the same for non-dealer and dealer.

Four Winds has MMM [5] and IMS [6] rulesets implemented, but the IMS scoring and settling table seems to differ from that linked above. I don't know which version it corresponds to (either 0.3 or 0.4).

Links follow:

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19970709040932/http://www.math.princeton.edu/~ztfeng/mj_servers.html
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/19970709074858/http://www.math.princeton.edu/~ztfeng/mj_rules.html
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20001121094500/http://home.earthlink.net/~hirokun/MMMRule.html
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20030212013653/http://mahjong.real-time.com/Documentation/Rules/rules.html
[5] https://4windsmj.com/kb/help/4winpr21.htm
[6] https://4windsmj.com/kb/help/4winpr20.htm