Education
Poulsen worked on a farm in Denmark from the age of seven with his brothers, and never attended any kind of formal schooling.
Poulsen worked on a farm in Denmark from the age of seven with his brothers, and never attended any kind of formal schooling.
At a young age, he helped with efforts to make the usually infertile land of Jutland suitable for farming. Poulsen represented Denmark in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and five times in official Chess Olympiads (1937, 1939, 1950, 1952, 1956). He also played in several friendly matches.
Scandinavia versus
Germany (Bremen 1938), Denmark versus Norway (Oslo 1947, Oslo 1952), and Denmark versus Sweden (Saltsjöbaden 1948, Copenhagen 1949).