Career
He is also Sergey Karjakin"s trainer and one of the coaches of the Russian national team He learnt how to play at the age of four and a half years and at age six took part in group instruction sessions. Motylev became a Candidate Master at eleven years old.
Around this time, he was also gifted at football, a sport for which he had major aspirations.
In 2002, he was invited to took part in the Russia vs Rest of the World match in Moscow and, in the company of the world"s elite players, scored 1/6. In 2005, he tied for first in the Aeroflot Open.
Later that year, Motylev finished second at the 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup, behind Pentala Harikrishna, whom he defeated, and qualified again for the Russian Superfinal, this time by finishing equal third in Kazan. Motylev finished second, behind Ian Nepomniachtchi, in the Aeroflot Open 2008.
In April 2014, he took clear second place, behind Pavel Eljanov, in the B tournament of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Şəmkir, Azerbaijan.
In July of the same year, he participated in the Biel Grandmaster Tournament and scored 3.5/10 (+1=4-5), finishing last. He placed equal first (second on tiebreak) in the 2015 Russian Championship Higher League with 6.5/9 and qualified for the Superfinal. In the latter he scored 4/11, tying for 11th-12th place with Ildar Khairullin and placing last on tiebreak.
His father Anatoly is a FIDE Master.