Avoiding another checkmate

Tonight I played a good game of chess in an online tournament, but my king was in the open and could of been checkmated, but moving my rook to queen scared him away enough where I could take black's rook on the next move after putting his king in check, once he moved out I captured black's rook and then used my knight to capture his and put his king in check, repeating the same process with my queen and knight I eventually got checkmate!