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 longest Chess game is 269 moves (I. Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989) which ended in a draw. 39 Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the first American to defeat a Soviet player in an international tournament in New York, 1924.