Junta Ikeda

@juntaikeda · Infinite Chess · Substack profile · Games

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Junta Ikeda has 3,129 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #29 on Substack's Games Bestsellers board. 42 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 14.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 3,129; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 2.4K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 42; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 14
Bestsellers rank: #29; Games

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Junta Ikeda on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	3,129		2.4K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Games Bestsellers	#29	#29	4 of 4
Games Rising	#80	#12	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Games Bestsellers	29	29	29	29	0
Games Rising	78	12	12	80	▼2

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

42 publications recommend Junta Ikeda; 1 started in the last 30 days. Junta Ikeda recommends 14, and 10 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2023-02	4
2023-04	1
2023-05	2
2023-06	4
2023-07	1
2023-08	3
2023-09	1
2023-10	1
2024-01	2
2024-04	2
2024-11	1
2025-07	1
2025-08	1
2025-10	1
2025-11	2
2025-12	3
2026-01	1
2026-02	1
2026-04	1
2026-05	1
2026-06	2
2026-08	3
2026-09	1
2026-10	2

Recommended by

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Lit & Chessstarted Apr 21, 2026 · mutual
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Studying Chess, Deliberatelystarted Dec 24, 2025
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#SciComm from the Frozen Northstarted Dec 10, 2025
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All 42

ChessLifestarted Apr 2024
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The Blundering Biscuit Substackstarted Oct 2023
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Scacchia Ludusstarted Aug 2023 · mutual
Connor’s Substackstarted Aug 2023
flakefly’s substackstarted Jul 2023
login’s Substackstarted Jun 2023
GM Alex Colovic's Newsletterstarted Jun 2023 · mutual
Mindcreaser - Benjamin Portheault's substackstarted Jun 2023 · mutual
Ssech’s Substackstarted May 2023
neurotechnology past, present and futurestarted May 2023
Ryze’s Substackstarted Apr 2023
Old Man Chess Substackstarted Feb 2023
Road to Infinitystarted Feb 2023 · mutual
Zwischenzug Chessstarted Feb 2023 · mutual
Perpetual Chess Link-Feststarted Feb 2023 · mutual

Recommends

Jennifer Shahade18k followers · started Dec 2023 · mutual
Dalton Perrine1.5k followers · started Oct 2023 · mutual
Nikhil’s Chess Newsletterstarted Jun 20, 2026 · mutual
Chess in Small Dosesstarted Feb 20, 2026
The Chess Improvement Labstarted Oct 2025
Millennial Crashing by Flo Brinostarted May 2025
Lit & Chessstarted Jan 2025 · mutual
Scacchia Ludusstarted Aug 2023 · mutual
GM Alex Colovic's Newsletterstarted Jun 2023 · mutual
Mindcreaser - Benjamin Portheault's substackstarted Jun 2023 · mutual
Road to Infinitystarted Feb 2023 · mutual
Say Chessstarted Feb 2023
Perpetual Chess Link-Feststarted Feb 2023 · mutual
Zwischenzug Chessstarted Feb 2023 · mutual

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.