Am I corrupting young minds?
At the club the other night I was volunteered for a 10-minute game against a young lad. I ended up with black. Usually I would aim for
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4?!, but in this case he played
2.Bc4. I thought for a few seconds and played a la Calabrese
2...f5?!, whereupon
3.f3? fxe4 4.fxe4? Qh4+ 5.g3?? got him toasted pretty quick. Afterwards I explained that 2...f5 was a bad move, and showed him some basic traps in lines with 2/3...f5, and also explained that simple development with d2-d3, Nb1-c3 would be very good. Then I found an adult to play blitz against.
Okay, a little while later I looked over at his game against another junior, and he had the following position as BLACK:
Naturally he got burned after
5...Nf6 6.Ng5.
Now I'm feeling a little guilty about what I did to him, and I'm wondering what I should do next time... Since I can win with just about any opening, would it be better to play ultra-classical Giuocos and Two Knights and Berlins as black and save the trashy gambits for the adult guppies? These kids know that I'm the strongest regular at the club (there's another adult who never shuts up about it), and I have to remember that they're very impressionable.