Wijk Aan Zee: World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India is all situate to take on a tough star-studded field in the 73rd edition of Tata Steel chess competition that gets underway here.
World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway starts as the top kernel in a field that boasts of a 2740 average rating hitting category 20 according to FIDE's ELO charts.
Anand will have his task score out in the 14-players round robin tournament. The World Champion will look forward to get back the number-one ranking for which he needs to improved Carlsen and third seed Levon Aronian of Armenia who recently became the fifth player in history to join the 2800 rating club.
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