We all know that in 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm II canceled the Schlieffen Plan at the figurative last minute when he saw the British weren't going to back down over Belgium. We all know what happened after that: the bloody failed French offensives into the German defenses along the common border from 1915-1916, the Irish Civil War, the assassination of King Albert and the botched French attempt to frame the Germans, the subsequent French invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, the Russian collapse in 1916, and armistice later that year after Britain arm-twisted both sides into making peace.
Let's say Germany did follow the Schlieffen Plan. Could it have worked and prevented the war from turning into the OTL meatgrinder?