You can't take two pieces at once, but you can threaten two (or more) at once, which is the point of a fork. If you threaten two undefended pieces, and neither one can move to defend the other, you will win a piece for free. Here's a simple example:
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Thank you so much for explaining. My son and I have just started playing chess together and we had basic knowledge but we checked out some books at the library and they started mentioning forks, skewers and pins and I got all confused. I asked him can we catch 2 pieces at one time? and he said he didn't know so we played a game and of course he won. Thanks again
Joshua_Susan wrote: Thank you so much for explaining. My son and I have just started playing chess together and we had basic knowledge but we checked out some books at the library and they started mentioning forks, skewers and pins and I got all confused. I asked him can we catch 2 pieces at one time? and he said he didn't know so we played a game and of course he won. Thanks again
This site http://www.chesstactics.org/ is really good in explaining tactics. It teaches you how to spot tactical opportunities, how to cause them and does it case by case increasing the difficulty of them
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I been reading about forks and I don't understand. Can you capture 2 pieces at one time?