ESP8266 not following if statements

Using Arduino IDE to make a thermostat with the ESP8266 based NodeMCU board for WiFi connectivity in order to use a web server to control the thermostat.
Full sketch:

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>

#include "Adafruit_ILI9341.h"
#include "Adafruit_GFX.h"
#include "SPI.h"
#include <dht.h>

#define button 12
#define relay 16
#define dhtPin 2
#define pot A0
#define DC 5
#define CS 4

const char* ssid = "BTHub5-72NX";
const char* password = "d6c6a43fe2";
String page;

int heatMode = 0;
int target;
int temp;
int dhtValue;
int potRef;
int potVal;
int i = 0;
int a = 0;

Adafruit_ILI9341 tft = Adafruit_ILI9341(CS, DC);
ESP8266WebServer server(6565);
dht DHT;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.println("[Serial] Initialized");
  tft.begin();
  tft.setRotation(3);
  Serial.println("[TFT] Initialized");
  pinMode(pot, INPUT);
  pinMode(button, INPUT);
  pinMode(relay, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(relay, HIGH);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }
  Serial.println("");
  Serial.print("Connected to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  Serial.print("IP address: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
  delay(100);
  server.on("/", [](){
    server.send(200, "text/html", page);
  });
  
  server.on("/thermostat/on", [](){
    server.send(200, "text/html", page);
    heatMode = 1;
    delay(1000);
  });
  server.on("/thermostat/off", [](){
    server.send(200, "text/html", page);
    heatMode = 0;
    delay(1000);
  });
  server.on("/thermostat/+", [](){
    server.send(200, "text/html", page);
    target = target + 1;
    delay(1000);
  });
  server.on("/thermostat/-", [](){
    server.send(200, "text/html", page);
    target = target - 1;
    delay(1000);
  });

  server.begin();
  Serial.println("[WiFi] Web server started");
  tft.fillScreen(ILI9341_BLACK);
  delay(1000);
}

void loop() {
  page = "<!DOCTYPE HTML>\n";
  page += "<html>\n";
  page += "<head><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\"></head>\n";
  page += "<body>\n";
  page += "<h2>Current temperature: ";
  page += String(temp);
  page += "</h2>\n";
  page += "<h2>Target temperature: ";
  page += String(target);
  page += "</h2>\n";
  page += "<h2>Heating mode: ";
  if (heatMode == 1) {
    page += "On</h2>\n";
  } else if (heatMode == 0) {
    page += "Off</h2>\n";
  }
  page += "<a href='/thermostat/+'><button>+</button></a>\n";
  page += "<a href='/thermostat/on'><button>On</button></a>\n";
  page += "<a href='/thermostat/off'><button>Off</button></a>\n";
  page += "<a href='/thermostat/-'><button>-</button></a>\n";
  page += "
";
  page += "<a href='/'><button>Press to reset after any button above is pressed!</button></a>\n";
  page += "</body>\n";
  page += "</html>\n";
  server.handleClient();

  if (a == 2000) {
    a = 0;
    dhtValue = DHT.read11(dhtPin);
    temp = DHT.temperature;
    if (heatMode == 1) {
      if (int(temp) << target) {
        Serial.println("Relay ON");
        digitalWrite(relay, LOW);
      } else if (target << int(temp) || target == int(temp)) {
        Serial.println("Relay OFF");
        digitalWrite(relay, HIGH);
      }
    } else {
      digitalWrite(relay, HIGH);
    }
  } else {
    a += 1;
  }
  delay(10);
  
  if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH) {
    dhtValue = DHT.read11(dhtPin);
    temp = DHT.temperature;
    if (heatMode == 0) {
      tft.fillScreen(ILI9341_BLACK);
    } else if (heatMode == 1) {
      tft.fillScreen(ILI9341_RED);
    }
    tft.setCursor(10, 10);
    tft.setTextColor(ILI9341_WHITE);
    tft.setTextSize(4);
    tft.print("Current: ");
    tft.print(temp);
    tft.println("C");
    tft.setCursor(10, 60);
    tft.setTextColor(ILI9341_WHITE);
    tft.setTextSize(4);
    potVal = analogRead(pot);
    Serial.println(int(potVal));
    if (int(potVal) >= 0 && int(potVal) << 205) {
      target = 19;
      Serial.println("19");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 205 && int(potVal) << 410) {
      target = 20;
      Serial.println("20");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 410 && int(potVal) << 615) {
      target = 21;
      Serial.println("21");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 615 && int(potVal) << 820) {
      target = 22;
      Serial.println("22");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 820 && int(potVal) <= 1024) {
      target = 23;
      Serial.println("23");
    }
    tft.print("Target: ");
    tft.print(target);
    tft.println("C");
    if (heatMode == 0) {
      tft.setCursor(10, 190);
      tft.setTextColor(ILI9341_WHITE);
      tft.setTextSize(4.5);
      tft.print("Heating off");
    } else if (heatMode == 1) {
      tft.setCursor(10, 190);
      tft.setTextColor(ILI9341_WHITE);
      tft.setTextSize(4.5);
      tft.print("Heating on");
    }
    delay(500);
    while (i != 4) {
      if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH) {
        if (heatMode == 0) {
          heatMode = 1;
        } else if (heatMode == 1) {
          heatMode = 0;
        }
        i = 4;
      } else {
        delay(2000);
        i += 1;
      }
    }
    i = 0;
    tft.fillScreen(ILI9341_BLACK);
  }
}

The sections of code that don't work are:

    potVal = analogRead(pot);
    Serial.println(int(potVal));
    if (int(potVal) >= 0 && int(potVal) << 205) {
      target = 19;
      Serial.println("19");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 205 && int(potVal) << 410) {
      target = 20;
      Serial.println("20");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 410 && int(potVal) << 615) {
      target = 21;
      Serial.println("21");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 615 && int(potVal) << 820) {
      target = 22;
      Serial.println("22");
    } else if (int(potVal) >= 820 && int(potVal) <= 1024) {
      target = 23;
      Serial.println("23");
    }
  if (a == 2000) {
    a = 0;
    dhtValue = DHT.read11(dhtPin);
    temp = DHT.temperature;
    if (heatMode == 1) {
      if (int(temp) << target) {
        Serial.println("Relay ON");
        digitalWrite(relay, LOW);
      } else if (target << int(temp) || target == int(temp)) {
        Serial.println("Relay OFF");
        digitalWrite(relay, HIGH);
      }
    } else {
      digitalWrite(relay, HIGH);
    }
  } else {
    a += 1;
  }

For the first section, a potentimeter is used to control the target temperature displayed on the screen, however no matter what the value is (0 -1024) the target temperature is always set to 19C by the if statement (shown by the serial debugging I have done)

For the second, any target temperature value causes the relay to turn on, essentially ignoring the if statement.

Would greatly appreciate anyone's help with this because I cannot see any reason for it to be getting the if statements wrong?

Many thanks in advance.

if (int(potVal) >= 0 && int(potVal) << 205)

why << (the left shift command) instead of < (less than) ?

And all of those "int(potval)" should just be "potval".

Steve

Thanks for the replies, I thought that in C++ you had to use a double operator (== for example) in an if statement, I will try changing this.

Regarding the int(potVal) this was just something I implemented as the statement could've been getting confused with the type of data it's comparing, it doesn't actually do anything seeing as it is already an integer.

means "bigger than"
< means "smaller than"
= means "bigger or equal than"
<= means "smaller or equal than"
== means "equal to"
!= means "not equal to"

= assigns a value
<< shifts bits to the left

shifts bits to the right

&& means logical "And"
|| means logical "OR"
& means bitwise "AND"
| means bitwise "OR"