Scholar's Mate

This is a great starting move (of many many more) to learn and remember. I have won more games using this move and an early start in a game to see if the opposition picks it up. If not, it is a quick game! 😁
And as you all can tell, I have just started playing chess...

Going back in life's wayback machine, when I was in college in the 90's, I was rated about 1200, and there was this cocky 16 year old that was rated 1600, and he basically just memorized every opening trap he could find.  [His father was a professor]

The other problem with the chess club is that everybody wanted to play only 5 min chess. Thankfully, nowadays, it's easy to find someone online willing to play 10 to 15 minute games.

I wasn't unhappy the day he said he got accepted to some university in a different state. Forgot which university, but considering the kid was trying to get into an Ivy League school, I'm sure it was better than the public university I was going to.

Opening traps are annoying. They have their place in any chess journey, I guess, but usually they are brought under control soon enough so as not to derail the necessary evolution of a player. I've been known to allow the play leading to many of them for the sake of allowing my opponent to win his/her desired way, but after a while it gets all too annoying and boring.

Its a coming of age, I guess.   A large % of players, this is their first or second game.  Then their third and fourth, maybe even fifth and sixth games are some bunghole running a queen gone wild through their pieces.  Then many of them give up and never play again.   Consider teaching a beginner, not by destroying them over and over with tactics that don't work after you learn some openings, but by teaching them some opening concepts...