B27 Sicilian: 2.Nf3, unusual Black 2nd moves (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 b6 3.d4)

At this moment is uncertain what I am posting tomorrow so it will be a surprise to everyone, even me. With 293 games in progress and high chance of going over 300 soon, I am really hopeless... But at least there is quite a nice pool of new game examples coming some day that I will of course post here. The game featured below is a really short one but maybe some instructive moments at least to lower rated players. After this post I need to start going through my games again and maybe find a new and exciting opening variation to post here tomorrow. Might take a while for me to get back on posting more puzzles but there will be more next week albeit I will remain quite busy for the next week or two I think. Until next time, my fellow chess enthusiasts.

[Event "AUTO-OPEN-2232"] [Site "http://www.queenalice.com/gam"] [Date "2011.01.17"] [Round "1"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "Wattsy"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B27"] [WhiteElo "2004"] [BlackElo "1470"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "21"] [EventDate "2011.??.??"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 b6 {B27 Sicilian Defense: Katalimov Variation} 3. d4 {B27 Sicilian: 2.Nf3, unusual Black 2nd moves} cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 (4... d6 5. Nc3 Nd7 6. Be2 a6 7. Bg5 g6 8. Bg4 Bb7 9. Nd5 Ne5 10. Bh3 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. f4 Ng6 13. fxg5 Bxd5 14. exd5 Nxh4 15. O-O hxg5 16. Qg4 Qc7 17. Rae1 Ng6 18. Nc6 Bg7 19. Rxf7 {Djuric,S (2429)-Efimov,I (2387) Gallipoli 2017 0-1 (34)}) (4... g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Bb7 7. Bc4 Nc6 8. f3 Rc8 9. Bb3 d6 10. Qd2 Nf6 11. O-O-O Nd7 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. Bh6 O-O 14. h4 Nc5 15. h5 Nxb3+ 16. axb3 Bxc3 17. Qxc3 e5 18. Qd2 Re8 19. hxg6 {Quintana Marrero,P (1879)-Diaz Mendoza,E (1549) Las Palmas 2018 1-0 (44)}) 5. Nb5 Nf6 $146 {1.81/19} (5... Nc6 $16 {1.35/22 keeps fighting.}) ( 5... d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 Bb7 8. Bd3 Nc6 9. Nc4 Be7 10. O-O Nf6 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bxf6 Bxf6 13. Nd5 b5 14. Nce3 Nd4 15. c3 Ne6 16. Bc2 Nf4 17. Nxf4 exf4 18. Nf5 Be5 19. Qg4 g6 20. Nd4 {Thamm,M (1717)-Wulff,J (1855) Dresden 2010 1/2-1/2 (36) }) 6. Nd6+ {0.65/21} (6. N1c3 $18 {1.81/19}) 6... Bxd6 $1 $14 7. Qxd6 Nxe4 $2 { 2.50/19 [#]} (7... Qe7 $16 {0.73/22} 8. Qxe7+ Kxe7) 8. Qd5 $18 ({Don't play} 8. Qxe5+ $6 Qe7 $16) 8... Qh4 $2 {4.24/20} (8... O-O {1.99/21 was necessary.} 9. Qxe4 (9. Qxa8 Nc6 $16) 9... d5) 9. g3 Qg4 10. Be2 ({Less strong is} 10. Qxa8 O-O $18) 10... Qxe2+ $2 {11.95/25} (10... Qf5 {3.66/20}) 11. Kxe2 1-0