I think I have to take this point now, or white will just get too large a framework.
Here are the other moves I considered:
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[go]$$Bc Move 19 - Prisoners: B=0, W=0
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They're all attempts to poke my head just
slightly out of the corner, to avoid getting sealed in.
c is the straightforward way, not sente and white will probably just respond by taking the lower side.
a and b are fancy attempts to try to accomplish this in sente. Of these, I abandoned a because I don't think it's actually sente: if white answers with a "slap" I need to extend as an answer, and there is no need for white to respond to the extension. As such, just playing the straightforward gote move of c would be better.
b is the one that was most appealing to me. I believe this move is sente because of this sequence, which I believe results if white stubbornly tenukis and then refuses to let me press into white territory:
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[go]$$WcWhite ignores
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However, I don't think it actually does a very good job of preventing white from sealing me in the corner:
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[go]$$WcWhite seals the corner anyway
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When there's no obvious purpose to it, exchanging d15 for d14 is probably bad: not doing it leaves me more flexibility to make or not make the exchange later. As such, I'll just take the big framework point right away, and allow myself to be sealed in. I may be able to use
threats to connect to the corner as forcing moves to reduce white's territory later, so the group might not end up totally useless even sealed in. Besides, assuming white does do the expected thing and seal me in, I get sente to make another move.