A recent forum thread has opened the debate between Rook plus the odd pawn or two versus a pair of minor pieces. In general, one might tend to favour Rook and two pawns against the minor pieces (see, e.g. my annotated game id=sago vs id=ionadowman under the title "Great Snakes, Batman"). However, even with a pawn to make up the difference, the rook tends to find the two minor pieces too much of a handful. This game, however, had one, very unusual and rather strange feature that came to the aid of the rook.