You can see the opponent's pieces in Fog of War Chess

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Avatar of watermelonfroyo
The opponent pieces are still there, just hidden using CSS opacity. This would be really easy to abuse and there's no way to know if your opponent is cheating. Please fix!

Sample Fog of War game with pieces visible

Avatar of duntcare

It's the easiest 

Avatar of duntcare

And i cant abuse it due to how lazy I am to browse through inspect code 

Avatar of hiryanli

how do cheaters use it?

Avatar of truimagz

Oh man, good catch.
Looks like they've fixed this @whatisupbub1 since then, I went and checked it out.

Avatar of Wibee2001

It is cleary true. When I have a "spectator", I loose most of the time (my rating is 1980). Each move is slow (10..15 seconds) even the most obvious of it. The anticipation was unreal after analysis. Very frustrating !

Avatar of LongTermFuture

@Wibee2001 Could you share a link to one of your games where you believe your opponent was cheating by getting vision of the full board?
In my 6,000+ Fog of War games I have only encountered players cheating in this manner a few times. (I'm top 10 player currently rated 2270.) It's usually easy to analyze the players games afterwards to see if their play is suspicious. There's a big difference in the moves made between beginners playing with full information vs strong players playing fairly. Would be happy to take a look.

Avatar of AFTSD

for me I can see the board normally and there is no fog