Do you play differently against less experienced players?

Salutations everybody,

Thank you for taking the time to read (and hopefully respond to) this!

Do you play differently against less experienced players? I've seen conversations on this site previously about "playing the board" versus "playing your opponent", and I was hoping we could dive into one, specifically pointed at if you know your opponent is less experienced than you are.

In a casual game, do you use the opportunity to experiment with new ideas, tactics, or openings? Do you find yourself taking it easy on your opponent?

In a tournament game, nobody expects you to do less than your best - but if you know your opponent is less experienced than you, are you ever tempted to end things quicker, with attacking ideas that might not be sound... or do you try to drag things out into a favorable endgame? How do you (in a tournament or rated setting), go about ensuring a victory against somebody much less experienced than you?

Thank you for your thoughts.

(Oh, and before anybody asks, I'm on the Patzer side of the chess fence... I don't get many opportunities to play people worse than me)

depends how less experienced. if slightly then i play normally. if to the point where it's obvious i'm going to win then i try to win quicker.

I sometimes play kings gambit against weaker players. Maybe under 1600.

A casual game is nothing like a real game. So if people only play the game very casually, you can help them out a little and give them odds of a piece or play them blindfold.

I tend not to mess around too much in official games with longer time controls. If I have a solid chokehold on a much weaker player where nothing can happen, maybe I'll threaten a tactic and hope he's not going to see that. However, if it has consequences for my position, then, absolutely not. 

Yes

I do all my initial experimenting online and also vs computer.  OTB, I try not to experiment.

The only time I play much weaker opponents is when playing some of my son's friends (7 yr olds); at my level, there's not many much weaker adult opponents.  Since they want to learn chess, I do my best to describe what I intend to do (unfortunately, at my level, it isn't always accurate) and point out obvious good moves that they missed.  We can also undo moves.  Sometimes I'd setup tactical opportunities on purpose (this actually isn't easy to do if you've not practiced for a while).  But I don't "take it easy" on them by playing worse; instead, I sometimes play without a queen or rooks.