Not mine, but these games have to be shown.
gameID=148522gameID=164615These games are both fantastic examples of the 'Alliance Play' playstyle, but taken to the very highest level. Alliance Play is familiar to most of us as two players saying 'Hey, let's two way draw', and then stomping the rest of the board and either two-way drawing or one of them stabs the other for the solo. It's annoying when it happens against you, because it will always feel like you were defeated because one, or both, of them was not playing for the win.
These games demonstrate that strategy reimagined completely. Two players saying, "I know we're both going for the solo victory, but I need your help to cross the stalemate line. We'll arrange our positions, our supply center gains, everything, so that neither of us can stab as we both aim for a two way draw - but if you slip up and give me the chance I'm looking for, I'll take the win."
The Austrian stabs on Russia in both of these games represent a moment of weakness, of letting the guard down, from the Russian player, and the Austrian spotting that moment of weakness and going for the solo victory. Perhaps it's not so much the stabs that make them fascinating as the strategy in general, but the stabs were certainly a major part of the game and were expertly executed in both cases.