Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand will have his task cut out when he takes on Russian Alexander Grischuk in the sixth round of the london Chess Classic here.
With three draws, one win and a lone loss, Anand is sitting on 2.5 points from the first five rounds and the Indian ace will have to change gears and look for some victories as the Classic approaches its business end.
Anish Giri of Holland, Hikaru Nakamura of USA and Maxime Vachier-lagrave of France jointly share lead on three points apiece, each having scored one victory apart from four draws.
Anand shares the fourth spot currently with levon Aronian of Armenia, world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, Fabiano Caruana of Italy, Michael Adams of England and Grischuk with a fifty percent score while Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria is in sole last spot, having amassed just the one point from his five outings.