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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA fiction similar to Ender's Game, kids challenge each other in games of strategy [s]

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Scott Thompson (sigmanuelder) I am looking for the title of a book that I read about 20 years ago.

It is similar to Ender's Game and is about some young children that are gifted and get selected to go to a training academy of some sort. They start out playing strategy games against each other that are simple, like checkers. They get more complex like Chess and Go. Their rankings change based on how well they do in these head to head match ups. One boy quickly becomes the best and starts to command groups in simulated games.


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (themis-athena) | 71 comments Perhaps a book from Sheri S. Tepper's True Game trilogy?

There's an omnibus volume of all three novels:
The True Game: Kings Blood Four/Necromancer Nine/Wizard's Eleven

The individual books are:
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizards Eleven


Scott Thompson (sigmanuelder) Nope, none of those....The children meet up in a game room/lounge of some sort. The games are all done on a computer simulation screen, where two children challenge one another and then select the game that they will challenge in....


Scott Thompson (sigmanuelder) Found it!!!

Split Infinity by Piers Anthony. There is a Technological universe that parallels a Fantasy Universe.

In the technological universe is "The Game".


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