-/// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo legal move at a time from the
-/// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a
-/// new pseudo legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left,
-/// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha
-/// beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most likely
-/// to get a cut-off first.
+// ButterflyHistory records how often quiet moves have been successful or
+// unsuccessful during the current search, and is used for reduction and move
+// ordering decisions. It uses 2 tables (one for each color) indexed by
+// the move's from and to squares, see www.chessprogramming.org/Butterfly_Boards
+// (~11 elo)
+using ButterflyHistory = Stats<int16_t, 7183, COLOR_NB, int(SQUARE_NB) * int(SQUARE_NB)>;
+
+// CounterMoveHistory stores counter moves indexed by [piece][to] of the previous
+// move, see www.chessprogramming.org/Countermove_Heuristic
+using CounterMoveHistory = Stats<Move, NOT_USED, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB>;
+
+// CapturePieceToHistory is addressed by a move's [piece][to][captured piece type]
+using CapturePieceToHistory = Stats<int16_t, 10692, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB, PIECE_TYPE_NB>;
+
+// PieceToHistory is like ButterflyHistory but is addressed by a move's [piece][to]
+using PieceToHistory = Stats<int16_t, 29952, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB>;
+
+// ContinuationHistory is the combined history of a given pair of moves, usually
+// the current one given a previous one. The nested history table is based on
+// PieceToHistory instead of ButterflyBoards.
+// (~63 elo)
+using ContinuationHistory = Stats<PieceToHistory, NOT_USED, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB>;
+
+// PawnHistory is addressed by the pawn structure and a move's [piece][to]
+using PawnHistory = Stats<int16_t, 8192, PAWN_HISTORY_SIZE, PIECE_NB, SQUARE_NB>;
+
+// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo-legal move at a time from the
+// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a
+// new pseudo-legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left,
+// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the
+// alpha-beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most
+// likely to get a cut-off first.