Description

“Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses (in the British Commonwealth countries), X’s and O’s (in Ireland) and X and 0 (in India) is a pencil-and-paper game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The X player usually goes first.
The player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.” (Wikipedia)

Create an advanced, flexible tic-tac-toe game for the console. The game should work as follows:

1. Ask if the player would like to resume a saved game. If yes, load game state from a text or binary file (your choice of file format).
For a new game, ask how many players are playing as a prompt on its own line. The maximum number of players is 26.
For a new game, ask how large the board should be as a prompt on its own line. The maximum number is 999.
For a new game, ask what the win sequence count should be (i.e. 3 would be normal standard tic-tac-toe) as a prompt on its own line. For a new game, check to ensure that winning is possible given the criteria specified, and display an error and quit if not.

2. Output a board in the following general format:

large, so if you run out of screen space, do not worry about it wrapping or having scroll bars appear. The maximum number of rows/columns will be 999, so three spaces is enough.

3. Repeat the following process over and over again until the user saves and quits, the game is won, or a tie occurs:
Ask the user for a row and column number separated by spaces, or Q to quit. Put the appropriate symbol for that player in the specified spot. Players should be given the following symbols, in order: XOABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWYZ
If the user chooses instead to save and quit, ask them for a filename in a prompt on its own line. Then, save to that file and quit.

If you are confused about the rules of Tic-Tac-Toe, please consult the Wikipedia page.