The most famous chess tournament on the planet, Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, starts its 2017 edition this weekend with the first round free and live to watch online from 12.30pm on Saturday. Its central theme will be Magnus Carlsen’s attempt to win by a clear margin and so reinforce the 26-year-old world chess champion’s ambitions to establish himself as the best player of all time ahead of the legends Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Carlsen has a good opportunity because three of his major chess rivals, the world No2, Fabiano Caruana, and the dangerous Hikaru Nakamura from the US as well as France’s world No5, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, have all preferred to play at Tradewise Gibraltar, which starts on 24 January and is cementing its reputation as the best organised and strongest open chess tournament. The Norwegian still ...