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What is an average player's rating in open chess? In rapid live.? What about a good intermediate.? Which one is the rating you go by, when you see how good they are, open chess or rapid live? Thanks.
I'd say the average OTB is around 1400 (rough estimate). Online, here, 12-1300. Intermediate in both would be the 15-1700 range (to me). On here, 1600 is a good intermediate player. I don't know what you mean by "open chess" unless you're referring to daily chess. Your live rapid rating would probably be closest to OTB play, but, in general, an online rapid rating is higher than what your OTB rating would be. Not always, but usually.
You can see the average Chess.com ratings for different categories here. The same site has rating curves from which you can glance approximate percentiles.