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The clocks will not be stopped for anyone under any circumstances. They were not designed to be stopped, and stopping them would defeat the purpose of using them. If I were to stop clocks, we may as well not use clocks at all and just play untimed games. The purpose behind timing games in the tournament is to keep the tournament as a whole from dragging on too long. This affects everyone in the tournament, not just those who can't play for a while and their opponents. Besides this, I designed the time controls to allow for the very sort of thing that has come up with Mark Thompson. He has already accumulated a good amount of reserve time in his remaining two games, and the very purpose of giving reserve time is to give a player the freedom to stop playing when emergency situations like this arise.