Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Seirawan ya fara wasan chess a 12; a 13, ya zama Washington dan wasa na farko. A 19, ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya na matasa. Ya kuma lashe wasa da Viktor Korchnoi, wanda shekaru biyu da suka gabata ya yi rashin nasara a wasan da ya yi a gasar zakarun duniya. Da yake ya burge shi, sai Viktor ya gayyaci Seirawan zuwa Switzerland, inda Korchnoi yake horar da kansa don wasan da zai yi a shekara ta 1981
a kan Anatoly Karpov.