-/// TranspositionTable::first_entry returns a pointer to the first
-/// entry of a cluster given a position.
-
-inline TTEntry* TranspositionTable::first_entry(const Position& pos) const {
-
- return entries + (int(pos.get_key() & (size - 1)) << 2);
-}
-
-/// TranspositionTable::new_search() is called at the beginning of every new
-/// search. It increments the "generation" variable, which is used to
-/// distinguish transposition table entries from previous searches from
-/// entries from the current search.
-
-void TranspositionTable::new_search() {
-
- generation++;
- writes = 0;
-}
-
-
-/// TranspositionTable::insert_pv() is called at the end of a search
-/// iteration, and inserts the PV back into the PV. This makes sure
-/// the old PV moves are searched first, even if the old TT entries
-/// have been overwritten.
+/// TranspositionTable::store() writes a new entry containing position key and
+/// valuable information of current position. The lowest order bits of position
+/// key are used to decide in which cluster the position will be placed.
+/// When a new entry is written and there are no empty entries available in the
+/// cluster, it replaces the least valuable of the entries. A TTEntry t1 is considered
+/// to be more valuable than a TTEntry t2 if t1 is from the current search and t2
+/// is from a previous search, or if the depth of t1 is bigger than the depth of t2.