 Motylev won the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship in Yerevan with 9/11 and a rating performance of 2872, the best performance in the event's history.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.