It is not what Stockfish does though. From the Wiki page: Stockfish implements an advanced alpha–beta search and uses bitboards. Compared to other engines, it

It is not what Stockfish does though. From the Wiki page: Stockfish implements an advanced alpha–beta search and uses bitboards. Compared to other engines, it is characterized by its great search depth, due in part to more aggressive pruning and late move reductions.[13] As of September 2024, Stockfish 17 (4-threaded) achieved an Elo rating of 3642 +16 −16 on the CCRL 40/15 benchmark.[14] See also: Stockfish historically used only a classical hand-crafted function to evaluate board positions, but with the introduction of the efficiently updatable neural network (NNUE) in August 2020, it adopted a hybrid evaluation system that primarily used the neural network and occasionally relied on the hand-crafted evaluation. In July 2023, Stockfish removed the hand-crafted evaluation and transitioned to a fully neural network-based approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess)