1 hour classical time control

Why is this format missing for live play?  This is the standard game and the most important for new players to learn under (enough time to think carefully, but still maintain pressure on the players).  Rapid games force players to learn bad behaviors, long games of 1day+ are more open to cheating, drop-outs, loss of focus, etc...  

I find it most particular that precisely this format is missing, furthermore I feel rather cheated considering I pay good money to use this site already.  

You can set a custom 60 minute time control.

I dont have anything against increments and never mention them in my post.  Rapid brings about bad behaviors for new players because they havent learned good behaviors yet, so they fall back on what they know due to the time constrain, which reinforces those bad behaviors.  Numerous GMs who teach chess advise strongly against playing rapid until you are already advanced in your technique.  

I just saw that you can create a costume 60 minute time control.. I've been using this site for almost a year and just now realised that.  A 60 minute game should be in the first drop-down menu when a user selects liveplay, there's no reason for it not to be and every reason for it.

Implying bad behaviors in chess play don't exist (playing f3 in general, not developing, pushing your queen early, etc etc), and that new players can't reinforce such behavior through forced repetition.  At any rate, I am surprised at the resistance to this request.  

What reasons could you possibly have to NOT WANT a classical time control game in the immediate live-play drop down menu?   How hard would it be to put one there?  

I would follow his advice. He just wants you to improve.

I agree with daggaz, it seems a bit strange not to have the more typical over-the-board time as an option. Unfortunately for me it would still be impractical for live games on my iffy computer which has a habit of 'dropping' pieces before they reach their intended square usually prompting an instant "Resigns"(!?**) on my part, so for me the ideal would be a live 45 mins/1 hour game with the added option of a cancel/confirm safety-net.

@NelsonMoore  thanks for the advice but the topic isn't why I played a bad game (im doing a PhD and played that particular game at the end of a long day and quickly decided I was too tired to think straight), but that the drop-down menu really should have a classical 1 hour game option.    

I'll try out the 30/45 suggestion (sounds reasonable) but again, wouldn't it be better to have options like this in the menu instead of making new players discover both the GUI and the correct formats, and then having to wait a longer time for other players looking for the same, must-be-manually-entered format?  

I agree. They could remove either 3|0 or 3|2 from the drop down menu (one 3 minute option is enough) and replace it with 60 minutes. People who want to play say 3|0 could use the custom feature if 3|2 is not to their liking or vice versa.

I would love to play more 60 minute games, but it's tough to find opponents. I usually have to go through "open challenges" and pick anyone around 1200-1600 rating who is willing to play more than 30 minutes.

Well, it's true i'm new here so quite a lot seems strange to me! Home page tells me there are 76K members online, a huge number so how can there be no demand for 1 hour live chess - has there been a poll taken? I can't see 45/45 in the range of options, if that's 45 moves in 45 mins then that's another version of speed chess like all the Live options that show up on the drop-down menu. Since Daily chess seems to be an online equivalent of postal chess, then there's currently no option inbetween 'postal' & speed chess, i.e. 'club match' chess.

Btw, can anyone tell me what "premove" means in Live settings? 

45/45 is 45 minutes total clock time plus 45 seconds increment added to your clock each move. Premove is when you make a move on the board whilst your opponent is thinking. When your opponent moves your premove is then made automatically. You use 0.1 seconds on the clock doing this so it's primarily for bullet/blitz and when you are really short of time.

How would you even know what the real demand is?  And furthermore, the fact that the 60 minute game isnt readily available in the drop-down menu would, in itself, drastically reduce the observed "demand" as the majority of players almost certainly just pick something off that menu rather than set a game manually. 

Regardless, it is dishonest to say that there is "no demand", of course there are some people who want this, I am one of them.  Even if the 60 minute game was the least requested (I doubt that), it would cost the site nothing to put it in the drop down.  I have yet to see a single argument against doing this.

Strangemover - thanks for answering my question. I was hoping "premoves" were something else. I'll be sticking to Daily chess i think as my computer just can't handle the pressure of Live chess!  

Every time you move it should ask you if you're sure.

After you click "yes" then that might be a mistake too, so after that chess.com should load an image of Regis Philbin

A few more "yes" and "confirm" later, it should accept your move.

The whole process shouldn't take longer than 15 to 20 seconds.

Emphasis mine.  I play 30 min and 15/10 exclusively and it never takes more than 10 seconds to get a game at any hour of the day or night, so clearly you don't have a good understanding of just how much demand is actually out there for these formats.  

Thanks for your suggestion but couldn't find this feature in Live settings... 

Really? Just to be sure (I rarely play Live games, only Daily), I went into the Settings menu in my app, and sure enough, under Live settings, there it was: Confirm each move. Are you using the app or the website? I haven't checked the settings menu on the website, to be honest, but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't there as well. Perhaps you should have another look at it.

Addendum: I just checked the website and found that this option is indeed missing there.  How odd!  I suppose your only choice then is to use the app, not the website.  Go figure, huh?

Brillo pads!   thanks arabinatv for suggesting using the 'From & To square' method (I just tried it out on a Daily game), I didn't know about that, which tells you how computer literate I am (I left school before computers were being introduced there haha, Fischer v Karpov was still being talked about etc.)! That makes 30 min Live games now a possibility again for me.