Best Answer: There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of chess. In addition, America's Foundation for Chess found that there were. 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,00... ways to play the first ten moves of chess.
Wessex is still a recognised geographical area of south /southwest England and is in the Queens prerogative to grant titles as she wishes. I understand that this is a stop gap title for Edward until both The Queen and Prince Philip are dead when he will inherit his fathers title of Duke of Edinburgh.
Region of Wessex Actual Name Appearance in Hardy's Novels; Abbot's-Cernel: South Wessex: Cerne Abbas: Abbotsea: South Wessex: Abbotsbury: Aldbrickham: North Wessex: Reading: Alfredston: North Wessex: Wantage: Jude Fawley becomes a mason's apprentice there. It is also where he works following his marriage to Arabella Donn. (JtO) Anglebury: South Wessex: Wareham: Bramhurst: West Wessex