Ability to manuever out of your adversaries guns proves 60% of your skill as a virtual pilot. The other 40% is manuevering your guns into a firing solution. If you are taking fire in a head on, it's your fault for not figuring out a better way to avoid his fire. If you aren't taking fire, and he's trying to pull a shot off.. well you already won. Just go vertical, he tries to follow hard, oops no energy, you loop over and kill him. Problem solved. :-)
-SW
PS: I know it's a tongue in cheek post by Andy.