The Go Burglar, by William Pinckard, published in Go World , no. 15, Autumn, 1986 During the Edo period a go club, like a tea-ceremony room or a kyoka poetry meeting, was a place where rank, station, and sex were irrelevant: what amattered most was the skill of the participants. Such people came as close to forming a genuine meritocracy as was possible in classs-conscious Japan in those days, and…