Apparently, it's incorrect that the winning strategy is to move second - while the drawing motion take ~20ms less when reacting, it takes ~200ms to react in the first place, leaving you quite dead.
See <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/why_does_the_gunslinger_who_draws_first_always_get_shot.php" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/why_does_th...</a><p>Did the BBC misinterpret the data, or did the scienceblogs article make a mistake?