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.
St. Swithin's Day. The humble monk known as Swithin (or Swithun) was chosen by King Egbert of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex to tutor his son, Ethelwulf. When Ethelwulf succeeded his father in 839, he chose Swithin as bishop of Winchester, the capital of Wessex.