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Help with King's Indian Attack

#1
Hi everyone!
I need suggestions on how to play King's Indian Attack
I like this opening, it's pretty fexible and it often lead to fun games.

Here's the first point: I begin with with 1.e4 and if my opponent respond with any move except e5 I then transpose to the King's Indian Attack. I know it isn't the proper way to start with this openings, but this gives me the opportunity to play the Italian opening in case of 1.e4 e5 (king's indian doesn't work well against e5). What do you think about this point? Does it seriously compromise my entire opening?

I post my latest game just for example. I am NOT interested in analysing it, but you can understand what I mean.


Second point.
As I said, the opening it's quiet flexible, but this comes with cons. The moves are not so clear to me (except for few starting moves). I tried to watch videos about it, but every time they take the same games where the opponent blindly try to gain space on the queen side, ignoring white attack on the king side; therefore they teach "easy" lines. The problem is, especially at low levels, my opponents don't respond in such a way. Same problem with GMs' games: I rarely face those lines. So I ask you: do you know some books/videos/sources that can help me?

Last point.
I struggle with the pawn structure. In paritcular, when my opponent block my e4 pawn with e5 before I can push e5 myself (wich would it's a key move leading to some sharp and extremly fun line that I can play quiet well). This happen often against Sicilian Defense. Any suggestion? Do I need to try anticipate the advancing e4 to e5?

I know the main answer is time and practice, but if you have more detailed suggestions I would love to hear them!

Thank you for your time
#3
Thank you @lightsmv
I'm mostly interest in withe "point of view", but I'll give it a try anyway
#4
If you're not interested in analyzing it, what's the point of posting it? (And btw you're lost after 19... Bxc3.)
#5
Bassem Amin hit 2700 playing, predominantly, the KIA via a 1.e4 move order. He is the modern expert on the system, so if it's good enough for him, it's probably fine for you. I'd strongly recommend looking at his games for inspiration: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=87335

I do agree that most resources for the KIA tend to focus on the typical KIA attack: push e4-e5, then organize the pieces on the Kingside, sac something, mate. Play is less straightforward when Black doesn't let this happen. Likely the best resource to learn the KIA is KIA: Move by Move. Neil McDonald is a great author. Check out the Everyman Chess website, where you can view a pdf sample and, if you want to buy, have the option of downloading a pgn version (I far prefer digital chess books for the ease of use over traditional books).

As a general rule, if Black plays e5 himself, White has three plans: a) going for f4, a la the King's Indian, b) going for c3 and d4, a la the Ruy Lopez, or c) a patient strategy of some combination of a3, c3, b4 and generally being, well, patient, seeing what the opponent will do. I'll admit that I don't know what makes one strategy better than the other in any given position, and I often decide based on my mood. At my level, that seems to work pretty well.
#6
The King's Indian Attack for white makes most sense if you play the King's Indian Defence as black.
Look at games of Fischer and Tal with it.
If you are worried about 1 e4 e5, then start with 1 Nf3.
The point of starting with 1 e4 is to provoke a suboptimal move of black, like 1 e4 e6 2 d3: black has committed to e6 not e5, or 1 e4 c6 2 d3: black has committed to c6, not c5.
#7
@MrPushwood
As I wrote just above the posted game, I show it just to present an example of what I'm talking about. In that game I 1) begin with 1. e4, 2) get blocked by my opponent playing e5. As I said, just an example; here's why I posted in this section instead of "Games Analysis".
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to reply

@SmithyQ
That's was I was looking for! Thank you very much! These suggestions are reeeally useful :)

@tpr
You are right, KID probably shares some basic concept and idea with KIA. I'll give it a look!
Thank you!

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