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Christopher F. (Chris) Chabris, an American psychologist, neuroscientist, computer scientist, USCF chess master, chess writer and columnist. He is known as co-author along with Daniel Simons of the book The Invisible Gorilla published in 2010. This title of this book refers to an earlier research project of Chabris and Simons revealing that people who are focused on one thing can easily overlook something else, awarded with an Ig Nobel Prize.

Christopher Chabris received his B.A. in computer science and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, where he was also a lecturer and research associate for many years, and is currently assistant professor of psychology at Union College in Schenectady, New York, adjunct assistant professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College Center for Collective Intelligence. His research interests focuses on how people differ from one another in mental abilities and patterns of behavior, and how cognitive illusions affect our decisions. As computer science student at Harvard in the late 80s, when he was rated among the top 50 chess players in the U.S. under 21 years of age with an USCF rating of 2206 , he wrote on AI with Turbo Pascal, and reported on computer chess tournaments.

=See also=
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Atari ST
 * Cognition
 * Harvard Cup 1994
 * Harvard Cup 1995
 * Perception
 * Perception - Video
 * Psychology
 * Turbo Pascal

=Selected Publications=

1987 ...

 * Christopher Chabris (1987). Reviews: The Game of Kings - START's First Chess Tournament. STart Vol. 2, No. 2 » Atari ST
 * Christopher Chabris (1987, 1989). Artificial Intelligence and Turbo Pascal - Book and Disk. Irwin Professional Pub, amazon.com » Artificial Intelligence, Turbo Pascal
 * Christopher Chabris (1988). ChessBase - A Centuries-old Pastime Comes of Age. STart Vol. 3 No. 2 - Special Issue #4 » ChessBase

1990 ...

 * Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec (1993). The 4th Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Chess Challange. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4 » Harvard Cup 1993
 * Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec (1994). Report on the Fifth Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Intel Chess Challenge. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 » Harvard Cup 1994
 * Christopher Chabris (1995). American Chess Journal 1. H3 Inc
 * Christopher Chabris (1995). American Chess Journal 2. H3 Inc
 * Christopher Chabris (1996). American Chess Journal 3. H3 Inc
 * Christopher Chabris (1996). Report on the Sixth Harvard Cup Human Versus Computer-Chess Challenge. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 » Harvard Cup 1995
 * Mark E. Glickman, Christopher Chabris (1996). Using Chess Ratings as Data in Psychological Research. pdf
 * Patrick Wolff, Christopher Chabris (1997). The complete idiot's guide to chess. Alpha Books, amazon.com

2000 ...

 * Christopher Chabris, Eliot Hearst (2003). Visualization, Pattern Recognition and Forward Search: Effects of Playing Speed and Sight of the Position on Grandmaster Chess Errors. Cognitive Science, Vol. 27, No. 4
 * Patrick Wolff, Christopher Chabris (2005). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess. Third Edition, Alpha Books, amazon.com

2010 ...

 * Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons (2010, 2011). The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
 * Christopher Chabris (2017). Six Suggestions for Research on Games in Cognitive Science. topiCS, Vol. 9

=Forum Posts=
 * Sixth Harvard Cup UPDATE by Christopher Chabris, rgcc, December 18, 1995
 * Humans win Sixth Harvard Cup, 23.5-12.5 by Christopher Chabris, rgcm, December 29, 1995

=External Links=
 * Christopher Chabris from Wikipedia
 * The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us - about the authors by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
 * Chabris, Christopher FIDE Chess Profile
 * Christopher Chabris chess games - 365Chess.com
 * Jonah Lehrer Interviews Christopher Chabris | The Creativity Post, August 01, 2012
 * The Real Kings of Chess Are Computers by Christopher Chabris, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015 » TCEC Season 7
 * Anatomy of a Computer Chess Game by Christopher Chabris, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015 » on Game 14 of the Superfinal
 * Martin Thoresen's World Chess Championship by Christopher Chabris, January 10, 2015 » Martin Thoresen, TCEC, TCEC Season 7
 * Chris Chabris: When Intuition Fails, PopTech 2010, YouTube Video

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