So this is... Sort of true? Alpha/Beta pruning relies on heuristics and exploits their power with search. The heuristics that make stockfish so strong are numer

So this is... Sort of true? Alpha/Beta pruning relies on heuristics and exploits their power with search. The heuristics that make stockfish so strong are numerous, handcrafted and try to account for many notions of material. In the current computer chess championships, there are Monte Carlo engines that use the search search strategy as AlphaZero with hand crafted heuristics, and they're doing ok. But they're not as strong as AZ, which learnt, by itself, what a good chess position looks like, starting from random play