It was precisely Kasparov who drew with white in their match twice very shortly, one in 14 moves and one in 11 moves, so you don't know what you're talking about. Kramnik held confidently with black and pressed with white, winning 2 games without losing any, so he was simply his usual self. There's no "switching roles" here.
If you check the games of that match you'll notice that Kasparov drew in such a few moves while being at least one point behind. So I'd say that he drew because he was sick of Krammnik's drawing strategy, especially when the second one was on Krammnik's 5th (!) Berlin Wall.
Is Berlin Wall something outside of chess? Is it cheating? Have I missed that rule? You either find a way to challenge it, or try your luck else where, like the scotch, the english, reti, whatever. If you think defending with the Berlin against a pressing Kasparov is an easy task, you really don't know much about chess. It is in fact the opposite of "safe," it contains a serious risk, you simply succumb to playing an inferior endgame, against the best player to have ever lived in the history of chess. It is by no means an easy draw.
The non-games and short draws with white in that match were played by a psychologically weakened Kasparov, not the Kramnik as you suggest in your posts.
So yeah, you don't know what you're talking about.
Nevertheless you did seem to implicitly accept that Krammnik was indeed playing for a draw when using the Berlin Wall. Which makes your whole argument quite feeble.
It was precisely Kasparov who drew with white in their match twice very shortly, one in 14 moves and one in 11 moves, so you don't know what you're talking about. Kramnik held confidently with black and pressed with white, winning 2 games without losing any, so he was simply his usual self. There's no "switching roles" here.
If you check the games of that match you'll notice that Kasparov drew in such a few moves while being at least one point behind. So I'd say that he drew because he was sick of Krammnik's drawing strategy, especially when the second one was on Krammnik's 5th (!) Berlin Wall.
Is Berlin Wall something outside of chess? Is it cheating? Have I missed that rule? You either find a way to challenge it, or try your luck else where, like the scotch, the english, reti, whatever. If you think defending with the Berlin against a pressing Kasparov is an easy task, you really don't know much about chess. It is in fact the opposite of "safe," it contains a serious risk, you simply succumb to playing an inferior endgame, against the best player to have ever lived in the history of chess. It is by no means an easy draw.
The non-games and short draws with white in that match were played by a psychologically weakened Kasparov, not the Kramnik as you suggest in your posts.
So yeah, you don't know what you're talking about.