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Indeed, the 277 move game was played in a tournament on the Internet Chess Club. Oddly enough, I found that the average length of a game (played by humans) is roughly 40 moves. Based on the statistics provided by the Chessgames database (685,801) games, the average number of moves is 40.04.
No, general estimates for the game tree complexity of chess place it at around 10^123 far too high to count. It might be calculable though. There are over 9 million different possible positions after three moves each. There are over 288 billion different possible positions after four moves each. The number of distinct 40-move games is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.