Japanese crossword «Chess elephant»

chess board

I fail to see the elephant

The elephant is playing

There's an elephant gambit that I suspect the title is in reference to. It's a well crafted image.

Good

Good image

Nice, thank you

The piece we refer to as a Bishop was originally a war elephant, with the shape of the piece meant to resemble the elephant's tusks>
When chess made it's way to Europe and the West, nobody knew what an elephant looked like, so they named the piece after a bishops for the pointy hat it had.
Now you know!