The first rapid game. Would Anikeev try to get through the day and put everything on tomorrow’s superblitz, or would he immediately bring out something new? I felt there was no reason for me to play differently than usual, now that I had the lead. If he suddenly wanted to play sharp lines while he had played fairly passively throughout the match, I was curious to see that. As long as I knew I wasn’t falling into a trap of his, I wasn’t afraid. The only thing I had to watch was my time. In the classical games, he already played very quickly, and in the rapid and blitz games, I thought he would really want to test me on the clock.
