one women's knockout teams champion defended its title without any change in personnel, in 2001. the first winner under the knockout format, in 1976, had won the last two premier championships for women teams under board-a-match conditions in 1974 and 1975. (see sternberg women's board-a-match teams, a 21st-century name for the board-a-match event, which is no longer premier for women teams.)