World champion Viswanathan Anand might have recovered a lot of ground but he will still have to do a lot of hard work for a pedestal finish in the Corus international chess tournament here.The Indian ace, who scored two successive victories to reach 4.5 points out of eight games so far, is currently on joint fourth spot in his favourite hunting ground where he has won five titles so far. In the ninth round after the second rest day, Anand meets Boris Gelfand of Israel.The Category-20 field has seen the rise of Norwegian sensation Magnus Carlsen like never before but the teenager faces an uphill task in the last five rounds when he set to meet Peter Leko, Loek Van Wely, Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Teimour Radjabov.
