Deutsche Bahn: What happens if a flexible regional leg preceding a fixed long distance leg gets delayed or cancelled when on a Super Sparpreis ticket?

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When you buy the ticket you choose a specific itinerary. The ticket you buy will list all connections of that itinerary. When issuing the ticket Bahn will check that all connections of this specific itinerary are "legal", i.e. meet the internal rules and requirements for the specific connections involved.

Bahn will only accept responsibility for a delay if you use the ticket as booked. If you choose to ride a different itinerary, you are responsible for making the subsequent connections.

The only way Bahn can determine whether they are at fault or not is to look at the ticket as booked.

Later, I find that there is another A-B connection that leaves at 9:30 am and reaches at 10:00 am

That is fairly unlikely. If that train was available at booking, you would have already had the option to book it right then and there. So the only way this can happen would be an addition to the schedule or a non-trivial change to an existing schedule between booking and travel date. That is quite rare.

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