Make an educated guess!

No one reacts to my various hints to the "zebras" so I am going to resolve.

Actually it was a real otb (super)-GM game, McShane-Kotronias, analysed in "Chess for Zebras". #2 is right.

Did you now find beauty in ugly moves?

have not read comments for possible spoilers
it feels like a game somewhere in the vicinity of 2070 elo

ok I was too far off

To me those are super GMs playing like super morons.