Where would you move?

Actually the game is Rubenstein vs Marcozy 1920. On the Chessgames site there is an annotated version of this game in which Bogoljubow had this to say: Bogoljubow: "Also good is 23.Nxe5 Nxe5 24.Bxe5 and if 24...Bg4 25.Bd4 with an extra pawn, but Rubinstein prefers to keep the pressure on."

I thought Nxe5 wasn't bad either (which is why I researched a bit more), but I appreciate this thread for the positional thinking. It shows how style plays a role in a game as well.

here's a link to the game for those who gave their educated guess: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1006604

Originally posted by Nowakowski
I thought it might be interesting to view some semi-simple positional puzzles

So in the following position, where would you move?
and [b]why? - White to play
[fen]r3r1k1/qp3ppp/p3b1n1/3Bp3/1bN5/4P1B1/PP3PPP/1QRR2K1 w - - 1 23 [/fen]


For those of you who think this game looks vaguely familiar...
Stop yourself. Don't cheat. 🙂

Boxes are not welcome here, "Why" wins the "prize".... not "What"[/b]

Bxe5 is my instinct. It aims that Bishop at the enemy K. If the enemy N takes it, the White N retakes, maintaining pressure on the King. If the Black B takes the White one, Rook retaking lifts the room into position to pressure the King.