Mate No Matter What
If White is to play, can he always mate Black in 2 moves, regardless of the moves played before?

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If White is to play, can he always mate Black in 2 moves, regardless of the moves played before?
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The main challenge of a Sunome puzzle is drawing a maze. Numbers surrounding the outside of the maze border give an indication of how the maze is to be constructed. To solve the puzzle you must draw all the walls where they belong and then draw a path from the Start square to the End square.
The walls of the maze are to be drawn on the dotted lines inside the border. A single wall exists either between 2 nodes or a node and the border. The numbers on the top and left of the border tell you how many walls exist on the corresponding lines inside the grid. The numbers on the right and bottom of the border tell you how many walls exist in the corresponding rows and columns. In addition, the following must be true:
In addition, these variations of Sunome have the following extra features:
Examine the first example, then solve the other three puzzles.
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9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = 1 0 0
Add 3 pluses and 1 minus (not necessarily in that order) anywhere above in order to get a valid equality.
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