Comment by dmurray

I thought it played worse than random moves and couldn't understand how it could beat anyone (no offence to OP).

But if you intentionally hang your pieces, it tends to take them. And it will try to promote pawns in the endgame. So it is possible for it to stumble upon a checkmate, though in my effort where I gave away all my pieces, it instead found the only move to stalemate once it had K+Q+R vs K.