iniziale!

Good luck,white and black!

strano!

la partita sembra tranquilla..

Also e5 svenshikov is playable

I prefer playing dragon or Najdorf but this is a let of if you choose to play classical I definitely would have had a harder time facing Bg5

In nearly all Sicilians it's better to castle Q-Side

This isn't true. A lot of times, white can play for a more stable advantage in many lines by castling kingside, playing Kh1, and only then pushing f4. It's not the fastest or most exciting, but it is much less risky.

I like 9...Nxe4 10.Nxe4 d5, and black will have a comfortable game. 9...b5! leads to a clear advantage for black after either 10.Bxb5 Qb6+ followed by 11...Nxe4, or 10.Bd3 b4!, but I'd never find that OTB when 9...Nxe4 is staring at me.

I would play this as well because it's a normal Sicilian move or Qb6+ which puts the king in the corner and if black is prepared to lose some tempo with 10. Kh1 a6 11. Bd2 Qxb2 12.Rb1 Qa3 13.Bc1 Qa4 14. Bd2 Qc7 and then 15...b5 he gains a pawn but it is time consuming he is in the same position as the board but with a white rook controlling a half open b-file a pawn on a6 and A bishop on d2. But would white play Bd2. I personally would trying to force the Q into Zugzwang with Rb1 and then Bc1 but I'm not the best player and so please comment on what you would do as white. Also 10... a6 uses time but It also prepares b5 once the queen has moved and so if the bishop stays in place then black can start attacking on the Q-Side. Also Qc5 prepares the normal a6 and b5 Sicilian pawn storm and with white castling K-Side he is safer because white cannot play his normal K-side pawn storm or leave is king open because Black will put is LSB on b7 and follow with Nxe4 forcing Nxe4 or he loses time and when Black's knight moves from e4 a discovered attack on f3 and white has lost his initiative and could become passive despite having more space. Black has a Scheveningen type setup which is very solid

Qc7 seems logical. Of course, after e5 and the following exchanges (dxe5, fxe5, Nxe5, NxNe5, QxNe5), white has a nice open board to work with, but has to spend a tempo caring for Qc5+, winning the c5 bishop. Say Bd3, and white position is set for an attack on the black's kingside, after Bc5+, Kh1. I cannot say if it is good or bad...  

e5 isn't playable, for example 10...a6 11.e5 dxe5 12.Nxe5 (12.fxe5 Ng4) Nxe5 13.fxe5 Nd2, and the pawn on e5 falls (or 14.Bf4 Qb6+ and ...Qxb2). I'd play 10...a6 intending ...b5 etc., with good play on the Q-side typical of the Sicilian. It also prevents the annoying 11.Nb5.

I agree with normal Sicilian play of ...a6 I personally didn't see Rd8 and was starting to plan a Q-Side attack (see comment to Black's 9th)

After 10...a6 11.e5 dxe5 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.fxe5 Nd2 hasn't white got 14. Re1, I wonder? If then Nxe5 with the idea of 15. QxNe5 Black has QxBc4, but White has got 15. Bxa6 which maintains the material balance.