Program stops when I choose different directions

plususerz (12)
Why does my program stop when I switch directions (like "right" to "left", or "down" to "up"), but if I keep going in the same direction (like "left" to "left") it works fine?

All 4 blocks of code (one block for one of the 4 directions) have identical base code, and they all refer back to the original input "M," so I fail to see why switching to another direction bugs the program.

For reference, this is the "Dungeon Crawl" assignment from:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/12974/

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using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int coord1 = 0, coord2 = 0;
    int coord3 = 0;
    int coord4 = 0;
    int TreasureX = ((int)(rand()%8));
    int TreasureY = ((int)(rand()%7)) + 1;
    int x = 0;
    int RandomChance = 0;
    string M;
    string Response;

    cout << "You, the player, is at the coordinates [0][0]. Your goal is to find the treasure" << endl;


    cout << "Do you want to move: left, right, up, or down?" << endl;
    cin >> M;

    while (M == "left")
    {
        cout << "You moved one space to the left." << endl;
        coord1 = coord1 - 1 ;
        if (coord1 = coord1 - 1)
        {
            int pickedChoice = ((int)(rand() % 4)) + 1;
            if (pickedChoice = 1)
            {
                coord3 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 2)
            {
                coord3 ++;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 3)
            {
                coord4 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 4)
            {
                coord4 ++;
            }
            cout << "The monster is now at coordinates: " << coord3 << "," << coord4 << endl;
        }
        if (coord1 == TreasureX && coord2 == TreasureY)
        {
            cout << "You've found the treasure and won the game!" << endl;
            break;
        }
        cout << "You are at the coordinates: " << coord1 << "," << coord2 << endl;
        cout << "Choose again, where do you want to go: left, right, up, or down?" << endl;
        cin >> M;
        std::cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

    }

    while (M == "right")
    {
        cout << "You moved one space to the right." << endl;
        coord1++ ;
        if (coord1++)
        {
            int pickedChoice = ((int)(rand() % 4)) + 1;
            if (pickedChoice = 1)
            {
                coord3 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 2)
            {
                coord3 ++;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 3)
            {
                coord4 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 4)
            {
                coord4 ++;
            }
            cout << "The monster is now at coordinates: " << coord3 << "," << coord4 << endl;
        }
        if (coord1 == TreasureX && coord2 == TreasureY)
        {
            cout << "You've found the treasure and won the game!" << endl;
            break;
        }
        cout << "You are at the coordinates: " << coord1 << "," << coord2 << endl;
        cout << "Choose again, where do you want to go: left, right, up, or down?" << endl;
        cin >> M;
        std::cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

    }

    while (M == "up")
    {
        cout << "You moved one space upward." << endl;
        coord2-- ;
        if (coord2--)
        {
            int pickedChoice = ((int)(rand() % 4)) + 1;
            if (pickedChoice = 1)
            {
                coord3 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 2)
            {
                coord3 ++;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 3)
            {
                coord4 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 4)
            {
                coord4 ++;
            }
            cout << "The monster is now at coordinates: " << coord3 << "," << coord4 << endl;
        }
        if (coord1 == TreasureX && coord2 == TreasureY)
        {
            cout << "You've found the treasure and won the game!" << endl;
            break;
        }
        cout << "You are at the coordinates: " << coord1 << "," << coord2 << endl;
        cout << "Choose again, where do you want to go: left, right, up, or down?" << endl;
        cin >> M;
        std::cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

    }


    while (M == "down")
    {
        cout << "You moved one space downward." << endl;
        coord2++ ;
        if (coord2++)
        {
            int pickedChoice = ((int)(rand() % 4)) + 1;
            if (pickedChoice = 1)
            {
                coord3 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 2)
            {
                coord3 ++;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 3)
            {
                coord4 --;
            }
            else if (pickedChoice = 4)
            {
                coord4 ++;
            }
            cout << "The monster is now at coordinates: " << coord3 << "," << coord4 << endl;
        }
        if (coord1 == TreasureX && coord2 == TreasureY)
        {
            cout << "You've found the treasure and won the game!" << endl;
            break;
        }
        cout << "You are at the coordinates: " << coord1 << "," << coord2 << endl;
        cout << "Choose again, where do you want to go: left, right, up, or down?" << endl;
        cin >> M;
        std::cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

    }

    if (coord3 == coord1 && coord4 == coord2)
    {
        cout << "The monster caught you... game over." << endl;
    }


return 0;
}
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MiiNiPaa (8886)
Ahem, look at the warnings:
||=== Build: Debug in Test (compiler: GNU GCC 4.9.1x64) ===|
\Test\main.cpp||In function 'int main()':|
\Test\main.cpp|33|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|36|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|40|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|44|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|48|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|73|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|77|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|81|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|85|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|110|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|114|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|118|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|122|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|148|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|152|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|156|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|160|warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]|
\Test\main.cpp|18|warning: unused variable 'x' [-Wunused-variable]|
\Test\main.cpp|19|warning: unused variable 'RandomChance' [-Wunused-variable]|
||=== Build finished: 0 error(s), 19 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 3 second(s)) ===|

The bunch of similar warnings refers to lines like these: if (pickedChoice = 1) 
Read about problem with them here: http://www.cplusplus.com/faq/beginners/logic/#eq-vs-assign
plususerz (12)
@MiiNiPaa thanks for the help, I fixed all the warnings but the main problem still remains.

For example, when I go from ("down" to "up) or ("left" to "right" to "left"), the program just stops/breaks.
MiiNiPaa (8886)
Your program is essentually:

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while(M == "left") {
    //Handle moving left
}
//As soon you stopped moving left, you will never return to previous loop.
//Now you will never be able to move left
while (M == "right") //...
while (M == "up") //...
while (M == "down")  ///...
//As soon as you made past all these loops you cannot move.
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