Puzzles for week 16

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This week's puzzles feature three puzzles which aim is material advantage. The first one shows a discovered check which threatens not only the capture of material, but the promoting of it. The second demonstrates two basic chess tactics while the third puzzle can be easily solved by a simple move. The Hard puzzle has the pieces in akward positions( created, and the author sure is proud of it!) whereas the Very Hard puzzle, like the Hard one, has many moves Black can make. However, the position, and the placing of the pieces guarantees checkmate. Man, I'm really impressed. After 15 weeks of posting puzzles, I still wonder: how do these people create such puzzles?

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PUZZLES FOR WEEK 16:

Very Easy

Aim: Material advantage

Easy

Aim: Material advantage

Normal

Aim: Material advantage

I haven't posted Normal puzzles which are midlegame positions in a while.....

Hard

This one demands an expert eye. I doubt even an IM can solve this in a minute. But I may be wrong. Can you play the four moves which leads to checkmate within a minute?