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.
King Alfred of Wessex (r.871-99) is probably the best known of all Anglo-Saxon rulers, even if the first thing to come into many peopleâs minds in connection with him is something to do with burnt confectionery. The year 1999 saw the 1100th anniversary of his death on October 26th, 899, at the age of about 50.