Original sentence: But then the title was brought back in 1935, and awarded to Mikhail Botvinnik, who thus became the first "official" Grandmaster of the USSR.The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE, or World Chess Federation) was formed in Paris in 1924, but did not get around to deciding on Grandmaster status, or on formulating criteria on who should earn the title.These included the Dutchman Max Euwe, the Hungarian Geza Maroczy, the Americans Harry Pillsbury, Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky, the Russian Mikhail Chigorin, the Czechs Richard Reti and Salo Flohr, the transplanted Latvian Dane Aron Nimzowitsch, the transplanted Polish Frenchman Savielly Tartakower, the transplanted Russian Frenchman Ossip Bernstein, the Swede Gideon Stahlberg, the Yugoslavs Milan Vidmar and Borislav Kostic, the Russian Ukrainian Efim Bogolyubov, and several others.Verlinsky did not get his title back
Edited sentence: And if they had the results to prove it, why not.But certain other top players who were not considered Grandmasters likely believed they should be.But then the title was brought back in 1935, and awarded to Mikhail Botvinnik, who thus became the first 'official' Grandmaster of the USSR.The World Chess Federation (FIDE, for Federation International des Echecs, website fide.These included the Dutchman Max Euwe, the Hungarian Geza Maroczy, the American Harry Pillsbury, the Russian Mikhail Chigorin, the Czechs Richard Reti and Salo Flohr, the transplanted Latvian Dane Aron Nimzowitsch, the transplanted Polish Frenchman Savielly Tartakower, the transplanted Russian Frenchman Ossip Bernstein, the Americans Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky, the Swede Gideon Stahlberg, the Yugoslavs Milan Vidmar and Borislav Kostic, the Russian Ukrainian Efim Bogolyubov, and several others.Verlinsky did NOT get his title back.and then brought back in 1935.com) was formed in Paris in 1924, but did not get around to deciding on Grandmaster status, or on formulating criteria on who should earn the title