@TechReport{ it:2002-008, author = {Henrik Bj{\"o}rklund and Sergei Vorobyov}, title = {Two Adversary Lower Bounds for Parity Games}, institution = {Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University}, department = {Computing Science Division}, year = {2002}, number = {2002-008}, month = feb, abstract = {By using the adversary arguments we settle the first exponential lower bounds for restricted classes of algorithms solving Parity Games The first result applies to any algorithms that rely only on estimating values of vertices from the viewpoint of one player and ignore the game graph structure (a rough abstraction of different fix-point algorithms), the second settles the lower bound for a randomized algorithm that samples from the set of optimal counterstrategies (a popular idea used in many approaches). } }