" NO CHEATING. This includes using outside programs to help play and losing on purpose for the goal of boosting ratings. Your account may be banned, and ratings will be removed."

These rules,which can be found at similar pages also are not well considered.

Which programs are forbidden? All? Some have databases only! Forbidden? And what is the difference between an electronical database and a database in bookform?
Or are are books then forbidden too? In correspondence chess most players play this kind of chess because of this reason! That means not the program plays but the player analysis with these helps to decide about a move.

I think such rules are pointless too,because you have no instruments to enforce them for all players.
Many players will use the programs even so and you cannot prove this.Better would be to allow all these helps and the chances then are for all players equal again.Or else you have again two groups of players :some with and some without programs.Moreover you have two other things on the site: suspicions and imputations: "You are a cheater because you are playing with programs! "No,I am not a cheater! Prove it" and so on.

To analyze with programs (own or not own without difference) should be allowed,because nobody knows what the players uses in his livingroom.
And rules make only sense if they can enforced.In live-games it is another thing,but in "turn-based" games with breaks of several days there is no other rational choice.

I think better would be a guidlinerule like this :
"Because we cannot control it,we dont forbid using any helps and the player can use these helps with his own choice,so we think we have equal chances for all players then" or something.