Why did the Schlieffen plan fail?

The Schlieffen plan was a easy way of attacking France and Russia
Germany thought that Belgium wouldn't be hard to fight. But they were wrong and it took much longer then planned to defeat Belgium
Germany wanted to capture all the French coastal ports to prevent the English troops coming to help. But the BEF mobilised quicker then thought and got over to France before the Germans
The Schlieffen Plan relied on the Russian troops only being mobilised in six weeks but they were mobilised in only ten days. This ment that Germany had to send some troops away from the western front and to the northern one
Because Belgium was much harder to fight then expected it didn't take the planned six weeks to capture Paris. So all other timings were now incorrect

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