True Prodigies?

I consider a chess "prodigy" someone who, within 6 months of learning the game and without any coaching or self-study, just intuitively figures out enough to play at the Master level.  

According to legend, the above might apply to Morphy, Sultan Khan, Capablanca and Reshevsky.

Anyone I'm leaving out, or do any of the above players not fit the criteria?

I've been playing chess for two months

I almost have a fide rating

Man, you are a member of this site since 2016 and your rating is not bad, but it is only abit more than average, 1500-1600. That is not even a master level but an intermediate - advance level.

Even someboy like me would not be saying something like that. I started playing chess 2 years ago. I ve never studied anything but just played. All I know is product of my experience and my intuition. Recently I just opened an account on this site, the first time I did this. Time ago I opened an account on lichess but just played bullet. And I can say that Im a good chess player. 2000+ elo.

So I could relate myself as a prodigy someway,.. but nah. I mean this is only a game, I would be surprised to be a prodigy if the area were different or to see somebody to be a prodigy in another area, like math, science , politics, music.. etc not chess.

The legend that Mir Sultan Khan just learned chess and "intuitively" understood the game well enough to quickly become a strong master capable of beating Capablanca (among others) is unfounded.

He learned "Indian chess" (closer to modern chess than to chaturanga, just a handful of different rules) as a child and by the time he was an adult was one of the best players in Punjab (a part of northwest British India, the size of Germany, today two provinces--one in India, one in Pakistan) and he learned the "European" form of chess from Sir Umar Hayat Khan (soldier, politician, one of the largest (and richest) landholders in India. Sir Umar wished to promote the European game in India, so he hired and trained Sultan Khan. In 1928 he won the first all-India European chess championship.

In 1929 they traveled to England where Sir Umar organized a chess tournament, inviting some of England's best players. Sultan Khan, who knew almost no opening theory, did poorly, so Sir Umar hired the best English players, William Winter and Frederick Yates, to tutor him. In the summer of 1929 he surprisingly won the British Chess Championship. Khan returned to India with a cargo of opening books and games by top European masters, for a year of study.

Sir Umar brought him back to Europe in 1930 and entered him in several top tournaments. He did well, beating players who were later given the GM title, including Tartakower, Flohr, Rubinstein and drawing with Euwe and Alekhine. He won the only time he played Capablanca, and nearly always defeated his tutors Winter and Yates. Not quite top-GM strength but a formidable opponent. In 1933 Sir Umar took him back to India to use his fame in spreading the European game through sub-continent.

ya I think people care too much about age lol, its how long u have played for that matters