to win

(chess, shogi) major piece

(sports) match, game

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

(informal) to have "won" a match on a psychological or personal level despite losing to all appearances

to win when doing something

chess (specifically Western chess as opposed to shōgi)

(slang) "no-one wins except for X": X is the best

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend