Add CITATION.cff file

Make the stockfish software more easily citable, for example in academic papers.

fixes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/4419
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4422

No functional change

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+# This CITATION.cff file was generated with cffinit.
+# Visit https://bit.ly/cffinit to generate yours today!
+
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+title: Stockfish
+message: >-
+  Please cite this software using the metadata from this
+  file.
+type: software
+authors:
+  - name: The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
+repository-code: 'https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish'
+url: 'https://stockfishchess.org/'
+repository-artifact: 'https://stockfishchess.org/download/'
+abstract: Stockfish is a free and strong UCI chess engine.
+keywords:
+  - chess
+  - artificial intelligence (AI)
+  - tree search
+  - alpha-beta search
+  - neural networks (NN)
+  - efficiently updatable neural networks (NNUE)
+license: GPL-3.0