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Cursor control in a tic tac toe game.

TheGeek (1)
I am working on a tic tac toe program with a basic AI which is not yet implemented. I am stuck with the cursor control, I can get the cursor to move but with difficulty, and it will copy and recreate e.g the tic tac toe board or any thing else printed before i used the arrow keys to move the cursor. I am using a char array to make the board and i want to select one square of the board and be able to enter either an X or an O into it when selecting a square using the arrow keys and have it read it as a value by the scoring system.
I have included all of my code. 
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <ctime>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>  
#include <ctype.h> 
#include "CaenTerminal.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace CaenTerminal;
using namespace std;

//-----------------------------
char board[3][3];
int w,h;
char playerx='x';
int PosX,PosY;
int  ch;
int a;
int col,row;

//---------------------------

void curPos(int, int);

void PlayerTurn()
{
	
	cout<<"Test input"<<endl;//will be replaced by the cursor movements.
	cin>>col>>row;

	board[row][col]=playerx;
	
	if(playerx == 'X')
		playerx = 'O';
	else
		playerx ='X';
}
void isLocValid()
{
	if (col<=0)
		if (row<=0)
		{

			cout<<"location invalid"<<endl;

		}
}
void control()
{      
	GetPosition(PosX,PosY);

	if(GetKey()==140)//up
	{
		--PosY;
		curPos(PosX,PosY);
	}
	else if (GetKey()== 141)//down
	{
		++PosY;
		curPos(PosX,PosY);
	}
	else if (GetKey()==142)//left
	{
		--PosX;
        curPos(PosX,PosY);
	}
	else if (GetKey()==143)//right
	{
		++PosX;
		curPos(PosX,PosY);
	}
	
}

void MainBoard()
{
	
	    cout<<board[0][0]<<"|"<<board[1][0]<<" |"<<board[2][0]<<endl;
		cout<<"------"<<endl;
		cout<<board[0][1]<<"|"<<board[1][1]<<" |"<<board[2][1]<<endl;
		cout<<"------"<<endl;
        cout<<board[0][2]<<"|"<<board[1][2]<<" |"<<board[2][2]<<endl;
}

//----------------------------
int main()
{    
	srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
	
	
	
for (int z=0;z<9;)
{
	  MainBoard();
	 
	 control();
}
	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

void curPos(int x,int y)
{
 HANDLE hStdout;
  CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbiInfo;
  hStdout=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdout, &csbiInfo);
  csbiInfo.dwCursorPosition.X=x;
  csbiInfo.dwCursorPosition.Y=y;
  SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout, csbiInfo.dwCursorPosition);
}
ericeps (25)
My 2 cents:
It looks like you are trying to use the cursor on a command line. Instead, make your board with a GUI, like Qt(its cross-platform) or using Windows classes.
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