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DON'T mate in one.

Find the best move. I think that there is another way to accomplish what you're trying to do, but it's a lot harder.

Better yet, find both of Black's two drawing moves.

Yes it is an unsound problem. 

Kd8

Unsound as a study, but not bad if you would label it a teaching position for beginners.

If you wanted to use this as a teaching position, instead of "Black to play and draw" you could say "It's Black's move. Find each move Black could start with to achieve a draw, and show how White could win against Black's other first moves."

That teaches the beginner about both defending and attacking in this kind of position.

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Here is a more interesting shifted position. What is the result with White to play? What is the result with Black to play?

Evaluate this position

Either way, white wins

1...Ke6 2.c5 +

1.Kc/d3 Kc5 2.Kd/c3 Kd6 3.Kd4 

1...Kc7 2.Ke5 Kd7 3.Kd5 Kc7 4.Ke6 +

1...Kd7 2.Kd5 

1...Ke7 Ke5.

(This is wrong

You are half right.  1. Kc3 Kc7. Now what? (Or 1. Kd3 Kd7.)

Trexler, I know you're still working on #3071, but I have another one I think you'll enjoy solving. You can take a look at it after you're done with the current one.

White to play and win

At first I saw the move and I thought, "what difference does it make?" Then I see the difference

edit- I know there's a mate in one, but what I meant was it to be a mate in 4. Oops. Should've looked at the analysis.

Mate in 3

I almost got it right. I thought the third move should be Bb8# instead of Bc7#.

1. Qe2+ fails after Kf5. But 1. gxf8=Q does lead to mate in 2.