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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.
To be precise, the number of distinct chess positions after moves for, 2, ... are 20, 400, 5362, 71852, 809896?, 9132484?, ... (Schwarzkopf 1994, OEIS A019319). The number of chess games that end in exactly moves (including games that mate in fewer than plies) for, 2, 3, ... are 20, 400, 8902, 197742, 4897256, 120921506, 3284294545, ... (OEIS A006494). Cunningham (1889) incorrectly found games and positions after the fourth move.