(;AB[fr]AB[er]AB[dr]AB[ds]AB[gs]AB[hs]AB[is]AB[ir]AB[hq]AW[jr]AW[js]AW[jq]AW[hp]AW[gp]AW[cq]AW[cr]AW[cs]AW[fq]AW[eq]AW[dq]AB[iq]AW[ip]AB[jp]AB[kp]AB[lq]C[What is the best way to utilize those 3 stones?]AP[goproblems]
(;W[gr]
(;B[kr]
(;W[fs];B[ks]C[If you want to tenuki right now play T (at O3).]LB[nq:T]
(;W[gq];B[kq]C[You captured 4 stones in sente. You wasted a ko threat, but OK.RIGHT])
(;W[es]C[You captured 4 stones in gote, Black tenukies. Losing sente for no gain (compared to the solution) is bad except, maybe, in the final stage of the endgame.])
(;W[nq]C[Right! Black cannot play G3 before L3 so this is the same pointwise, and you still have a big ko threat.
Black has no big ko threat here; capturing at L3 is just a small ko threat as G3 next, forcing E1, would just cost you a few points.RIGHT]))
(;W[gq];B[kq]
(;W[fs];B[ks]C[You captured 4 stones in sente.RIGHT])
(;W[hr];B[ks];W[fs]C[You captured 4 stones in gote, Black tenukies. Losing sente for no gain (compared to the solution) is bad except, maybe, in the final stage of the endgame.])))
(;B[gq];W[fs]C[Double snapback. Black won't play this way.RIGHT])
(;B[fs];W[gq]C[Black loses the capturing race.RIGHT]))
(;W[gq];B[gr])
(;W[fs];B[gr])
(;W[ms];B[ks]
(;W[kr];B[lr]
(;W[ls];B[kq]
(;W[ks];B[ns]
(;W[mr];B[nr]
(;W[mq];B[np]C[Caught in a geta.])
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[mr];B[kr])
(;W[lr];B[kr]
(;W[ks];B[kq];W[ls];B[mr])
(;W[ls];B[kq];W[ks];B[mr]))
(;W[ls];B[ks]
(;W[kr];B[lr]
(;W[ms];B[kq]
(;W[ks];B[ns]
(;W[mr];B[nr]
(;W[mq];B[np]C[Caught in a geta.])
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[lr];B[mr])
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[ks];B[ls]
(;W[lr];B[kq]
(;W[ms];B[kr]
(;W[ls];B[ns]
(;W[mr];B[nr]
(;W[mq];B[np]C[Caught in a geta.])
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[gr];B[fs]))
(;W[kr];B[lr]))