Design Tic-Tac-Toe

Try to solve the Design Tic-Tac-Toe problem.

Statement

Suppose that two players are playing a tic-tac-toe game on an n×nn \times n board. They’re following specific rules to play and win the game:

  • A move is guaranteed to be valid if a mark is placed on an empty block.
  • No more moves are allowed once a winning condition is reached.
  • A player who succeeds in placing nn of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.

Implement a TicTacToe class, which will be used by two players to play the game and win fairly.

Keep in mind the following functionalities that need to be implemented:

  • Constructor, the constructor, which initializes an object of TicTacToe, allowing the players to play on a board of size n×nn \times n.
  • move(row, col, player) indicates that the player with the ID, player, places their mark on the cell (row, col). The move is guaranteed to be a valid move. At each move, this function returns the player ID if the current player wins and returns 00 if no one wins.

Constraints:

  • 2≤n≤92 \leq n \leq 9

  • player should be either 1 or 2.

  • 0≤0 \leq row, col <n< n

  • Every call to move() will be with a unique row, col combination.

  • The move() function will be called at most n2n^2 times.

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