How do I respond to an arrogant beginner? I played a skittles game (no clocks, arbiter etc.) against a beginner who did a lot of trash talking, which I didn't rise to. Here is an example of the conversation:


  Beginner: I'm going to beat you easily!
  
  Bad_Bishop: I'd like to see that. I play at quite a high level. Do you want a refresher on the rules, such as en passant and castling?
  
  Beginner: No, I know all that already
  
  Bad_Bishop: OK
  
  Beginner: I'll take white. They always win!
  
  Bad_Bishop: Hmmm...
  
  Beginner: [Part way through the game] How do knights move again?
  
  Bad_Bishop: In an 'L' shape
  
  Beginner: [After being checkmated] OK, you won, but I took 2 pawns and a knight!
  
  Bad_Bishop: Hmmm. Do you want to play a different game?


My questions are, should I have handled this beginner's trash talk differently? How?



I didn't keep a scoresheet, but this is what I remember of the opening:

[FEN ""]
[White "Beginner"]
[Black "Bad_Bishop"]

  1. b3             d5            
  2. Na3            e5            
  3. Nb1            Bc5           
  4. d4             Bxd4          
  5. Kd2            Bxa1          
 *
A much better way of handling it -


  Beginner: I'm going to beat you easily!
  
  Bad_Bishop: Of course you are.
  
  Beginner: I'll take white. They always win!
  
  Bad_Bishop: [Emphatically] Always! [pause, then with a note of doubt in your voice] Even when you are black?
  
  Beginner: [After being checkmated] OK, you won, but I took 2 pawns and a knight!
  
  Bad_Bishop: You were just so, so unlucky. [As you push the black pieces over to his side and start setting up the white pieces on your
  side] My turn as white.