A tungsten wire filament is placed inside a glass bulb, an electric current is passed through the filament, and resistance in the filament causes it to heat and âincandesceâ or glow. Most modern lamps feature a coiled filament that improves efficacy and reduces heat loss.
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.
The number of legal positions in chess is estimated to be between 10 43 and 10 47 (a provable upper bound), with a game-tree complexity of approximately 10 123. The game-tree complexity of chess was first calculated by Claude Shannon as 10 120, a number known as the Shannon number.