The Books GMs Really Read.

ChessBase Magazine is up there, I expect.

That's an answer I didn't expect from a GM. I that kind of an educational trick to make the likes of us concentrate on the essentials or do you really look into these books once in a while?

Btw: great to see a GM posting in these forums.

It's interesting to me that you say this because sometimes I go back and look at a "beginner" book and they say something I've heard a million times but for whatever reason this time I think "oooh, so that's what they mean" and feel like I can apply it to my game more... not that I wasn't before but maybe in a deeper way?

Anyway I definitely think the more you know, the more you can get out of a book.  And listening to Anand, Kramnik, et al comment on their games often sounds like "simple" ideas... just applied at a very high level.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sercrets shows how dangerous chess can be :)

You would only understand if you had read the book already.

Yes indeed. 

Good to see NM around too.

and the Royal 'roo.

Actually, that should be AM (Alleged Master).

I would imagine that by the time (10-15years) one has earned the title GM, one would have read a library full of chess books on Openings, Middle game and the End game...and once one has settled into a collection of Openings for both White and Black, then this will be one's focus on searching for literature to learn more...

GM Cainite seems to have a point. 

I read in an interview that Anand still reads Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca from time to time!! That is his favorite chess book.

And Mad magazine (according to Barbra Streisand, that's what Fischer was always reading).