Chess: Bishop Forks (No, it's not something you eat with)

A bishop fork is when you move your bishop in that it now attacks two of your opponent's pieces at the same time. This also allows for a potential to capture of one of these pieces.

In the diagram below, you see that white is about to move the bishop and attack both black's knight and  his rook. Now black can either move the knight on d4 but then lose the rook,...or he can move the knight on g8 to block the bishop, but then white will take the rook and also go on to capture one of the knights.

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