Tic Tac Toe perfect AI algorithm: deeper in “create fork” step

Question

I\'ve already read many Tic Tac Toe topics on StackOverflow. And I found the strategy on Wikipedia is suitable for my presentation project:

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Answer 1

I am not sure that it is the most elegant way to do it, but here is a two step way of looking at forks.

If the computer cannot win next turn, and it is not the first or second turn, a fork might be possible (this does not deal with creating the setup for a fork, just finding a fork).

For each of the cells that are empty, fill it, then run your step 1 function (sees if there are two in a row). If it finds two places, congrats, you have a fork. If not, you don't.