A fork is a tactic in which one piece attacks two or more enemy pieces at once. The opponent can usually save only one, so the other is lost. Any piece can fork, but the knight fork is the most famous.
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A fork is most dangerous when one of the targets is the king. Because check must be answered, the opponent has no time to save the other piece.
