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.
He set many of his novels and poems in Wessex, reviving the old Anglo-Saxon name for the counties of southwestern England, where he grew up. The Wessex he wrote of, though, was part real place, part literary conceit; he always insisted, This is an imaginative Wessex only..