MCTS is not a traditional depth first minimax framework. Key concepts like alpha-beta don’t apply. Although it is proven to converge to minimax in the limit,

MCTS is not a traditional depth first minimax framework. Key concepts like alpha-beta don’t apply. Although it is proven to converge to minimax in the limit, the game trees are so large this is not relevant. You could use the network in a minimax searcher, but it’s so much slower than a conventional evaluation function it’s unlikely to be competitive.