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Russia will also have the leisure to actually start building a real system of co-ordination. It was the absence of such a system that made the OTL Tannenberg battle possible, as it meant that even if Rennenkampf and Samsonov weren't out to get each other they had no idea who was doing what to whom when. Their issues of terrain and the enemy having interior lines will still exist, but in this case the German tactical results will be IMHO rather far short of the OTL ones.
Yes, the Russian have a much better plan. And Germany has a better plan. Most likely, Russia will run a modified version of Plan Germany and allow Poland to fall. In A-L, there will be a grinding Verdun like battle but minus the heavy artillery, so indecisive. In the East, it will be the Central Powers trying to break the fortress lines of Russia. It looks different than OTL, but the war will still last years.