Confusion in half filled or full filled electronic configuration
Having a half-filled or filled subshell is stabilising, as you say. But for Cl, the difference in energy between 3s and 3p is greater than the additional stabilisation from filling the 3p subshell. 3d and 4s are closer in energy, so for Cr it is favourable to promote a 4s electron and have a 4s1 configuration.