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Tal Memorial 2011 was held in Moscow, Russia, at Pashkov House from November 16 to 25. The tournament had an average rating of 2776, making it a Category 22 tournament and, at the time, the highest-rated 10-player round-robin tournament in chess history. The tournament featured an incredible lineup of 10 players:

• Magnus Carlsen — 2826 (#1)
• Viswanathan Anand — 2811 (#2)
• Levon Aronian — 2802 (#3)
• Vladimir Kramnik — 2800 (#4)
• Vassily Ivanchuk — 2775 (#6)
• Sergey Karjakin — 2763 (#8)
• Hikaru Nakamura — 2758 (#10)
• Peter Svidler — 2755 (#12)
• Boris Gelfand — 2744 (#14)
• Ian Nepomniachtchi — 2730 (#20)

Carlsen and Aronian finished tied for first with 5½/9, with Carlsen taking first place on tiebreak.

Also, the closing ceremony of the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_5_-Gk3g0

Chess historian Edward Winter investigated the recording. He notes that the complete recording first appeared online in May 2003 in the Chess Café archives. He also found contemporary evidence that Alekhine was in London in January 1938 and appeared on a BBC television programme on 12 January 1938.