Marcel Sisniega Campbell

{{Short description|Mexican chess player and film director}}

{{family name hatnote|Sisniega|Campbell|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox chess biography

| country = Mexico

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1959|7|28}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|1|19|1959|7|28}}

| death_place = Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico

| title = Grandmaster (1992)

| peakrating = 2540 (July 1991)

}}

Marcel Sisniega Campbell (July 28, 1959 – January 19, 2013) was a Mexican chess Grandmaster and film director. Sisniega was born in Chicago, United States, but grew up in Cuernavaca, Mexico.{{cite web |url=http://www.elem.mx/autor/datos/1021 |title=Marcel Sisniega |work=Enciclopedia de la literatura en México}}[https://twitter.com/SofiaSisniega/status/293506932663255040 Tweet by Sofia Sisniega confirming place of birth], January 21, 2013 Sisniega earned the International Master title in 1978 and the Grandmaster title in 1992.{{cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5100020 |title=Marcel Sisniega Campbell |work=FIDE |accessdate=January 21, 2013 |archive-date=October 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018033821/https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5100020 |url-status=dead }} Sisniega was a nine-time Mexican champion and three-time Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial winner. During his chess career he beat Viswanathan Anand, Artur Yusupov, Miguel Illescas and Jesús Nogueiras amongst others. He largely stopped playing after the early 1990s.

He was also a film writer and director. He is most recognized for his work in creating Libre de Culpas in 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.oem.com.mx/esto/notas/n2851948.htm |title=Fallece el maestro, Marcel Sisniega Campbels |website=oem.com.mx |date= |accessdate=2013-01-24}} His brother is modern pentathlete and politician Ivar Sisniega, and his children are Mexican-American actress Sofía Sisniega, Vera, David and Julian Sisniega.

Sisniega died suddenly of a heart attack on January 19, 2013, in Coatepec, Veracruz.Manuel López Michelone, {{cite news |url=http://www.proceso.com.mx/331344/murio-el-gran-maestro-marcel-sisniega |title=Murió el gran maestro Marcel Sisniega |work=Proceso |date=January 22, 2013}}{{cite news |title=Fallece a causa de un infarto Marcel Sisniega Campbell |url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2013/01/21/deportes/a07n1dep |access-date=20 March 2025 |work=La Jornada |date=21 January 2013}}