Why is the Bishop so big

no

it's buff

@biggybishop

What bishop?

Because the bishop is the holy man

it was formerly an elephant

See in Russian, it's слон, which translates to elephant.

I'm guessing as the game flowed away from India, some changes were made per culture.

To start with, the bishop may have been a camel, the rook an elephant, the pawn a soldier. Maybe in Russia they felt the elephant could replace the camel and introduced a tower in place of the position formerly occupied by the elephant. I'm no expert on this.

Wazir probably could tell us more about this.

Yes, actually we do call the bishop camel, and the Rook elephant here. I have no idea about it formerly being an elephant tho. 

What's it like riding a camel? You have the two hump ones there, right?

Yeah, we do have the two humped ones in Ladakh, but I never ridden one with two humps tho. Not that I even want to. I once rode one with the single hump, and it was pretty nauseating. Horse and elephant riding is much better in my opinion. 

I just thought of a good medicinal use for camel riding based on the above. I think olJoshie1 would be interested in it.