There are three piles of small stones, with the numbers being 19, 8, and 9. Now, the following operation is performed: each time, one stone is taken from any two of these three piles, and then these two stones are added to the other pile. Can the following conditions be met after several such operations?

(1) One pile has 2 stones, one pile has 12 stones, and one pile has 22 stones?
(2) All three piles have 12 stones each?

If the conditions can be met, please provide the minimum number of operations required to achieve it; if not, please explain the reason.

Note: Each operation can be represented as follows, for example, taking one stone from the first and second piles and adding them to the third pile can be represented as $(19, 8, 9) \rightarrow (18, 7, 11)$, etc.
(1) It can be done, with a minimum of six operations.
(2) It is impossible to do.