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Problem diagram.
White plays.
Solution follows
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Nice tesuji.
White 1 is a simple tesuji, but very easy to overlook!
White makes miai of taking the corner and capturing the 6 left side stones.
Black 2 can save his 6 stones on the left side, but
then White takes the lower left side with 3.
Note that a shortage of liberties keeps Black from cutting off White with 4,
because White captures the 2 left side stones with 5.
Correct Black response.
The corner is bigger. So instead of following the previous diagram,
Black will let White capture his 6 stones on the left side by taking
much of the corner with 2.
Slack.
White 1 misses the big tesuji.
Black has time to force at 2 to save most of the corner.
And White can no longer capture the 6 left side stones.
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